$150,000 Lawsuit Against Vanessa Hudgens Moves Forward
December 6th, 2007 | Posted in Celebrity News | Print This Article
Vanessa Hudgens is facing a breach-of-contract lawsuit after a judge gave her former attorney the go-ahead to file an application against her on Wednesday.
Vanessa’s ex-lawyer Brian Schall alleges the High School Musical star owes him over $150,000 in back commissions after he helped her earn more than $5 million from her songwriting and recording career.
But Vanessa claims Schall’s work was “below professional standard.”
Vanessa’s attorney had argued that she was only 16 at the time of signing the contract with him, and cited California’s Family Code law, which says “the contract of a minor is voidable before (age 18) or within a reasonable time afterward.”
However, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Tricia Ann Bigelow has ruled that, as Vanessa was 18 years and nine months old when legal proceedings began, she had waited too long to try and void the contract.
Judge Bigelow set a hearing for January 15, 2008.
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