Nicollette Sheridan is expected back in Los Angeles
Superior Court on Wednesday to argue that her legal case against
ABC/Disney for dropping her from Desperate Housewives should be
retried after a jury failed to reach a verdict last month. Sheridan
also is expected to ask the judge for $35,000 in sanctions against the
defense lawyers for their conduct in the case.
Sheridan’s three-week trial on her wrongful-termination claim ended in a hung jury March 16. Sheridan’s lawyers, Mark Baute and Patrick Maloney, say they want to retry the case and have cited several instances where they say the defense lawyers were out of order.
For instance, they say that on six occasions the defense team said
Sheridan had failed to properly complain about an incident in October
2010 when showrunner Marc Cherry struck her in the head
after a rehearsal, even though the judge had ruled that her call to an
executive producer who was charged with handling such complaints was
sufficient.
