Soundgarden Asks Court docket to Query Vicky Cornell Hand Over Social Media Passwords
The final band contributors negate ever since Vicky filed her lawsuit against them, they’ve been locked out of the band’s reliable social media accounts. They accuse Vicky in court docket papers of “conserving hostage the login facts” despite their repeated requests. Prior to the litigation with Vicky, the band says their socials were managed by their then-administration company, Patriot Management. After Patriot used to be terminated in Oct. 2019, they mentioned they realized that Patriot had particularly handed over your complete login facts to Vicky.
In step with their court docket submitting, the band says Patriot confirmed in an electronic mail dated Dec. 3, 2019 that “Vicky [Cornell] has since modified your complete social media passwords for the band accounts and will now not share them with [Patriot] as she needs the band, and I quote, ‘to sue her for them’.”
The band says now not simplest are their social accounts “in a snarl of neglect,” nonetheless that Vicky is figuring out herself as “Soundgarden” and has eliminated fan comments and posted photos and comments to the Soundgarden social media pages. The band says there had been no facts objects added to the band’s reliable net place since Oct. 15, 2019, no original posts to the band’s Twitter memoir since Jan. 28, 2020 and simplest one original post on the Soundgarden Facebook memoir to promote the Chris Cornell solo album, which used to be posthumously launched on March 3, 2021. In addition, the court docket papers negate the band’s Facebook “reliable store” page is now not operational, and as a result of dearth of postings on Twitter, the Soundgarden memoir has been stripped of its “verified blue badge,” which the band says sows doubt as to whether or now not the memoir is reliable.
A hearing on the band’s question is decided for April 16.
This motion comes per week after a federal reflect in Washington snarl indicate the court docket toss out two of Vicky Cornell’s six claims against the final contributors of Soundgarden. U.S. District Bring together Michelle Peterson mentioned in a anecdote filed on March 19 that there wasn’t evidence that the band used to be improperly withholding from her “tons of of thousands of greenbacks” of Chris’ royalty cash or that the band’s manager breached his accountability to head looking out after her most attention-grabbing hobby. Peterson’s anecdote will now be sent to the Presiding Bring together Robert S. Lasnik who will invent the ideal decision.