A judge has denied Ambyr Childers‘ request for a domestic violence restraining order against ex-husband Randall Emmett.
09.12.2022 - 01:05 / deadline.com
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order dissolving the trusteeship of NABET-CWA Local 41, which represents broadcast technicians at ABC, NBC Telemundo, Univision and ESPN in Chicago.
The trusteeship had been imposed by NABET-CWA on Sept. 22, six months after Raza Siddiqui was elected president of Local 41. In the local’s March elections, Siddiqui and his entire slate of running mates overwhelmingly defeated the local’s prior leadership, headed by former president Chris Willadsen and former treasurer Patrick Keating, who had sought the trusteeship on a wide range of allegations that U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feinerman has now ruled were “invalid.”
The temporary restraining order, which returns Siddiqui and all the other members of his administration to office at the close of business today, expires on Dec. 21 – unless extended by the court or by agreement of the parties – as the case continues to work its way through court. The judge noted, however, that if the matter comes to trial, Siddiqui and his cohorts “have established a likelihood of success on the merits.”
The election was bitter, and at one point involved the police. In seeking to overturn the trusteeship, Siddiqui and the 12 other plaintiffs in the case filed suit in federal court claiming that “a political ally” of Willadsen and Keating – and one of the individuals who filed internal union challenges seeking to overturn the election – had made “physical threats against Siddiqui and his family for which police reports were filed.”
Siddiqui, in a police report obtained by Deadline that had been filed during the run up to the election, claimed that the political ally had made a threatening phone call in February, allegedly telling him that
A judge has denied Ambyr Childers‘ request for a domestic violence restraining order against ex-husband Randall Emmett.
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