Fifteen actors, plaintiffs in a suit against Actors' Equity Assn., lost a first round in federal court Tuesday. Judge Terry Hatter Jr. refused to grant a temporary restraining order blocking Equity's Oct. 3 implementation of a controversial Actors' 99-Seat Theatre Plan.
The plaintiffs, all Equity members, are alleging breach of good faith and fair dealing in the manner in which the union went about issuing a referendum last March to modify the 16-year-old Equity Waiver Plan (whereby Equity "waives" certain rules theaters with 99-seats or fewer).
