Law firm asks judge to stop Netflix's imminent release of TheLaundromat
Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, embroiled in the "Panama Papers" scandal, say the Steven Soderbergh film is defamatory and its Friday release would interfere with a criminal trial should federal prosecutors charge them with money laundering.
Mossack and Fonseca complain that the film casts them as "villains profiting from the death of 20 people killed in the small town boat tour," and also object to a comment in the film from Streep tying them to “bribery, corruption, money laundering." But for now, the move for a restraining order is what's most pressing. Prior restraints on speech face nearly insurmountable odds in court.
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