Sarah Caron Ornelas v. Hot Brands LLC

I. BACKGROUND

A. Plaintiffs’ Complaint Plaintiffs Sarah Caron Ornelas and Rachael Todd filed this right of publicity action in Orange County Superior Court on January 2, 2020. (Compl., Notice of Removal Ex. A, Doc. 1 at 14.) Plaintiffs are professional fitness models and instructors who were engaged in that role by Defendants. (Id. ¶¶ 11, 13.) They allege that “[i]n or about 2015, Defendants … asked Plaintiffs [to] fly out to Louisiana for a modelling photo and video shoot,” for which Plaintiffs “would be paid a per diem fee to attend the shoot, and then Defendants would send Plaintiffs a proposal concerning their intended commercial use of those videos and photographs at a later date.” (Id. ¶ 15.) However, the parties never reached an agreement that would allow for Defendants’ commercial use ____________________________________________________________________________

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL

Case Nos. 8:20-cv-00228-JLS-JDE Date: March 09, 2020 Titles: Sarah Caron Ornelas et al v. Hot Brands LLC et al. of Plaintiffs’ “names, images, voices, signatures, photographs, videos, and/or likenesses…