The law firm implicated in the Panama Papers can’t stop Netflix’s release of the Stephen Soderbergh film “The Laundromat,” which portrays the firm’s lawyers as villains, Netflix said in an Oct. 17 filing in Connecticut federal court.
Mossack Fonseca & Co.'s “eleventh hour” attempt to stop the movie’s Oct. 18 wide release “seeks a virtually unheard of prior restraint on speech” and is “an affront to established First Amendment principles,” Netflix said in its opposition to the law firm’s motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.
Mossack Fonseca sued Netflix for libel and trademark infringement Oct. 15, arguing ...
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