Two celebrity defense attorneys were hit with financial sanctions on June 7, when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo determined that they had disobeyed the court’s protective order by leaking discovery materials to an attorney in a separate civil case.

However, the lawyers—Thomas Mesereau and his co-counsel Sharon Applebaum, who at the time were representing actor Danny Masterson in People vs. Daniel Peter Masterson in the Supreme Court of the State of California, Los Angeles—argued that the judge had neglected to issue a formal protective order in writing that explicitly prohibited the sharing of discovery materials.

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