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https://www.law360.com/retail/articles/1392672/kanye-west-faces-sanctions-bid-over-profanity-laced-depo

In a motion filed Wednesday, MyChannel Inc. asked the court to require West to sit down for an in-person deposition before July 1, after the hip-hop mogul allegedly chose to "insult and abuse" the company's attorney in a video deposition that West abruptly ended less than 15 minutes in.
Among other things, West called MyChannel's counsel "boy" several times and refused to answer even basic questions during the "profanity-laced tirade," according to the motion. The rapper also claimed that his "mental genius-ness" required him to use his phone while being deposed and that the attorney was "in a movie of West's creation," the company alleged.

After covering his face with a hood bearing Jesus Christ's image, "West walked out of the deposition and turned off his Zoom camera and refused to participate any longer," MyChannel said. The company is also seeking $62,725 in sanctions, noting that attorneys for West "didn't flinch or raise a peep in watching their client conduct himself in bad faith."

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https://www.law360.com/retail/articles/1392672/kanye-west-faces-sanctions-bid-over-profanity-laced-depo

In a motion filed Wednesday, MyChannel Inc. asked the court to require West to sit down for an in-person deposition before July 1, after the hip-hop mogul allegedly chose to "insult and abuse" the company's attorney in a video deposition that West abruptly ended less than 15 minutes in.
Among other things, West called MyChannel's counsel "boy" several times and refused to answer even basic questions during the "profanity-laced tirade," according to the motion. The rapper also claimed that his "mental genius-ness" required him to use his phone while being deposed and that the attorney was "in a movie of West's creation," the company alleged.

After covering his face with a hood bearing Jesus Christ's image, "West walked out of the deposition and turned off his Zoom camera and refused to participate any longer," MyChannel said. The company is also seeking $62,725 in sanctions, noting that attorneys for West "didn't flinch or raise a peep in watching their client conduct himself in bad faith."

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A company accusing Kanye West of stealing its technology for his "Sunday Service" video and platform is urging a California federal judge to punish the artist for "thumbing his nose" at the court's authority and skipping out early on a "profanity-laced" deposition.

In a motion filed Wednesday, MyChannel Inc. asked the court to require West to sit down for an in-person deposition before July 1, after the hip-hop mogul allegedly chose to "insult and abuse" the company's attorney in a video deposition that West abruptly ended less than 15 minutes in.

Among other things, West called MyChannel's counsel "boy" several times and refused to answer even basic questions during the "profanity-laced tirade," according to the motion. The rapper also claimed that his "mental genius-ness" required him to use his phone while being deposed and that the attorney was "in a movie of West's creation," the company alleged.

After covering his face with a hood bearing Jesus Christ's image, "West walked out of the deposition and turned off his Zoom camera and refused to participate any longer," MyChannel said. The company is also seeking $62,725 in sanctions, noting that attorneys for West "didn't flinch or raise a peep in watching their client conduct himself in bad faith."

On the same day, West's counsel fired back that MyChannel's application to speed up the hearing on its sanctions motion was "rife with misrepresentations and is nothing short of a blatant and transparent attempt to gain leverage in a case that plaintiff knows has no merit."

Arguing that there was no "emergency," his attorneys said that they already agreed that a virtual deposition was "not productive" and were working on an in-person one by the end of the month — which the other side allegedly accepted before making its request without warning.

"Of course, it is obvious why plaintiff's counsel did not meet and confer with counsel for Mr. West or give notice of the application: they knew that Mr. West's counsel would confirm a new deposition date … and that as soon as counsel did so, plaintiff would not have any premise (even a fabricated one, as here), to put the deposition video before the court and in the public record, which is plaintiff's only perceived strength in the action," West's attorneys wrote.

Counsel for the parties did not immediately return requests for comment Thursday.

MyChannel sued West and his Yeezy fashion line in August, alleging the rapper and his brand violated a nondisclosure agreement meant to cover MyChannel's technology for integrating video and e-commerce. West also broke an oral partnership agreement and cut the company out of significant profits, according to the lawsuit.

MyChannel — which aims to use new technology and artificial intelligence to incorporate e-commerce in video content — says it started its partnership with West in early 2018 in an effort to use MyChannel's technology to improve the user experience for Yeezy's website.

The company claimed that it threw virtually everything into the partnership with West, but rather than adopting the MyChannel platform for Yeezy's website, West allegedly stole it and used it for his Sunday Service platform, launched in 2019.
The complaint describes Sunday Service as a "weekly musical worship and ... prayer sessions, but with an e-commerce twist that uses the streaming video content from Sunday Service to drive the sales of Yeezy-branded products and merchandise."

Earlier this month, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian rejected MyChannel's initial application for West's deposition to be held in person on the grounds that virtual meetings were still preferred over face-to-face, and that it was not clear from the record whether all attendees were fully vaccinated such that masks weren't needed.

"Almost from the moment the court made that ruling, West set about to game the system, and violate every known rule of decency and good faith under the Federal Rules while thumbing his nose at the authority of this court," MyChannel said in its motion Wednesday.

This isn't the first time West has been accused of deposition antics. Last year, a South Carolina federal judge ordered West to sit for a deposition after he allegedly refused to schedule one for seven months in a separate lawsuit over a prayer sample in his 2016 album "The Life of Pablo." The case was later settled.

MyChannel is represented by Ben J. Meiselas and Curtis R. Sarian of Geragos & Geragos APC and Michael S. Popok of Zumpano Patricios & Popok PLLC.

West and Yeezy are represented by Nina D. Boyajian and Layal Bishara of Greenberg Traurig LLP.

The case is MyChannel Inc. v. Kanye Omari West et al., case number 2:20-cv-07732, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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