A jury in Seattle has found against Huong Hoang, the actress who sued the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and its parent company, Amazon, for posting her age without her permission, according to the New York Times. The verdict, reached in federal court last month, rejected a breach of contract claim against IMDB by the actress. Marsha J. Pechman, a judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, had already dropped Amazon from the case, and dismissed other claims.
Lawyers for the actress, now 41, argued that IMDB opened the door to age discrimination against her by posting her age, which it discovered by using information she provided as a subscriber. After Hoang filed the suit in 2011, the Screen Actors Guild publicly criticized IMDB for its practice of posting performers' ages. But the jury on Thursday found that the service had not violated its contract with Hoang, and awarded no damages.
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