‘Love Is Blind’s Renee Poche Fails In Bid To Have $4M NDA Battle With Netflix & Producers In Public
22.03.2024 - 19:13
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The public won’t get to see what’s going to go down in the $4 million battle between Love Is Blind contestant Renee Poche and producers Delirium and Netflix.
“The motion to compel arbitration is granted as to Defendants Delirium TV, LLC and Netflix, Inc.,” ruled LA Superior Court Judge Bruce G. Iwasaki today after a downtown hearing. “This matter is stayed pending the outcome of arbitration.”
“The parties have clearly agreed to delegate the Court’s responsibility to determine arbitrability to the arbitrator to decide,” the judge added of the ‘clear and unmistakable” language in Poche’s nondisclosure agreement. “The matter is delegated to the arbitrator to decide all the substantive issues raised by Plaintiff’s opposition to arbitration.”
In the sometimes contentious hearing itself, Judge Iwasaki put it even more bluntly: “The court is stuck with the contract. That’s the contract.”
Back in January, LiB Season 5 participant Poche took Delirium and Netflix to court to put the brakes on the multi-million arbitration action they took against her in November 2023 over violations of the NDA she signed as a part of the reality romance series.
Similar to allegations made by another LiB contestant Tran Dang in her own legal move, Poche laid out what really was going down on the reality show. Though she was cut from appearing on the fifth season, veterinarian Poche said she was being punished by the production company and the streamer for “some limited public remarks about her distressing time on the Program, including the terrifying experiences she had with Wall.”
Wall being fellow Season 5 contestant Carter Wall, a construction worker and fitness enthusiast that Poche was briefly engaged to. In her filing of earlier this
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