Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |It appeared to be a moment of triumph in the long, tumultuous story of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.In November, a federal judge sided with the HFPA — the tiny, 87-member group of international journalists that doles out the annual — in dismissing a potentially damaging antitrust lawsuit.The suit was filed three months earlier by a Norwegian entertainment journalist who had been denied membership in the group. It had drawn widespread attention in Hollywood, where the HFPA wields outsize power as the arbiter of one of the entertainment...…Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |It appeared to be a moment of triumph in the long, tumultuous story of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.In November, a federal judge sided with the HFPA — the tiny, 87-member group of international journalists that doles out the annual — in dismissing a potentially damaging antitrust lawsuit.The suit was filed three months earlier by a Norwegian entertainment journalist who had been denied membership in the group. It had drawn widespread attention in Hollywood, where the HFPA wields outsize power as the arbiter of one of the entertainment...WW…

Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |It appeared to be a moment of triumph in the long, tumultuous story of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.In November, a federal judge sided with the HFPA — the tiny, 87-member group of international journalists that doles out the annual — in dismissing a potentially damaging antitrust lawsuit.The suit was filed three months earlier by a Norwegian entertainment journalist who had been denied membership in the group. It had drawn widespread attention in Hollywood, where the HFPA wields outsize power as the arbiter of one of the entertainment...…Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |It appeared to be a moment of triumph in the long, tumultuous story of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.In November, a federal judge sided with the HFPA — the tiny, 87-member group of international journalists that doles out the annual — in dismissing a potentially damaging antitrust lawsuit.The suit was filed three months earlier by a Norwegian entertainment journalist who had been denied membership in the group. It had drawn widespread attention in Hollywood, where the HFPA wields outsize power as the arbiter of one of the entertainment...WW…

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