The photo-messaging app Snapchat legal department is doing all it can to stop Reggie Brown from exposing footage and videos to the press.
Reggie Brown, who is allegedly the one who devised Snapchat's "10-minute viewing rule" in 2011, has filed a lawsuit on October 2013 against CEO Evan Spiegel, CTO Bobby Murphy, and the company's investors for improperly excluding him from all participation, profit and interest in the joint business venture. However, in November, the defendants moved the complaints to the federal court.
On Friday, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, the photo messaging app's legal team, filed a temporary restraining order (TPO) with California's Central District Court against the ditched Reggie Brown for supposedly disclosing confidential information to the media.
In the lawsuit, Bruce Van Dalsem, one of the firm's partners, said that Luan Tran, Brown's lawyer, admitted in a December 2 phone call that his legal firm gave away the snippets of Spiegel's and Murphy's depositions to Business Insider.
"Plaintiff and his counsel boldly claimed they had a right to make such disclosures -- despite the contrary terms of the Protective Order -- because they unilaterally (and wrongly) determined that Snapchat had waived its rights under the Protective Order. Plaintiff and his counsel also refused to cease further violations of the Protective Order, stating that they reserve the right to disclose Snapchat's confidential documents and information to the media -- at any time and without any warning or meet and confer -- whenever they unilaterally determine that Snapchat has, in their erroneous view waived its rights under that Order," Van Dalsem wrote.
If the video disclosures go on, "Snapchat will suffer great or irreparable injury if plaintiff is permitted to disclose Snapchat's confidential information to the public," Van Dalsem told CNET.
There are absolutely more juicy information than seeing and hearing Spiegel say that "Reggie may deserve something for some of his contributions."
Tran told that he and his team would file an opposition to the restraining order request later Monday.
