LIFE THREATENING CONSEQUENCES.
SHANNON?
>> HILLARY, THANK YOU.
>> IT IS TIME NOW FOR NIGHT
COURT.
ON THE DOCKET TONIGHT, NETFLIX
FACING A LAWSUIT FOR DEFAMATION,
FRAUD, AND INVASION OF PRIVACY.
THE CLAIMANTS CLAIM NETFLIX
DUPED THEM TO PARTICIPATING IN
"AFFLICTED."
THEY ALLEGE THEY WERE PORTRAYED
AS LAZY, CRAZY, HYPOCONDERY
ACTS.
LIFE AND LIBERTY, DAVID GIBBS,
DAVID, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH
US TONIGHT.
>> NETFLIX DESCRIBES THIS AS AN
INSIDE LOOK AT PEOPLE LOOKING
FOR ANSWERS.
THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED
ON TO.
THE PLAINTIFFS SAY IN EXHIBIT A,
THE COMPLAINT FILED IN LOS
ANGELES SAYING THE PLAINTIFFS
WERE DUPED BY DEFENDANTS IN
PARTICIPATING IN A REALITY
PROGRAM THAT QUESTIONED THE
EXISTENCE OF THE CHRONIC
ILLNESSES AND PORTRAYED
PLAINTIFFS AS LAZY, CRAZY
HYPOCHONDRIACS AND MALINGERS WHO
DESERVE OF SCORN AND HAVE
RECEIVED SCORN AND ABUSE BECAUSE
OF THE DEFENDANT'S CRUEL AND DUE
POLICE US TO ACTIONS.
>> THERE'S A CONTRACT.
THEY SIGNED WAIVERS TO BE PART
OF THIS DOCUMENTARY.
AND THEY HAD THE ABILITY TO
LEAVE THE PRODUCTION AT ANY
POINT IN TIME THEY FELT THEY
WERE BEING PORTRAYED UNFAIRLY.
NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT
I'VE NOT SEEN THE FULL CONTRACT.
IT WAS NOT PRODUCED.
BUT I'M SURE THERE WAS A --
THERE'S WAIVERS IN THERE.
AND ALSO A ARBITRATION CLAUSE IN
THERE AS MOST CONTRACTS HAVE
WHICH DETERMINES HOW THESE CASES
WILL BE ADJUDICATED.
INSTEAD OF FILING A $100 MILLION
LAWSUIT, YOU GO TO ARBITRATION
WITH THE PARTIES INVOLVED.
SO THE IDEA THAT BECAUSE YOU
DON'T LIKE THE WAY THE
PRODUCT -- THE WORK PRODUCT IS
THAT CAME OUT THAT YOU GET TO
SUE IS KIND OF RIDICULOUS.
I'M ON FOX RIGHT NOW.
IF I DON'T LIKE THE WAY THE
INTERNET CLIP COMES OUT TALKING
ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW, THAT DOESN'T
MEAN I SUE FOX.
>> OR ME.
>> DEFINITELY NOT YOU.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN SUE
BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THE OUTCOME
OF WHAT HAPPENED.
>> EXHIBIT B, DAN PARTLAND, A
REPRESENTATIVE FOR DAN PARTLAND,
THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THIS
THING, WHEN CONTACTED ABOUT SOME
OF THE OBJECTIONS THAT SOME
PEOPLE HAD AFTER THE FACT, THEY
SAID OUR INTENTION WAS TO GIVE
THE WORLD A COMPASSIONATE WINDOW
INTO THE DIFFICULTIES OF
PATIENTS AND FAMILIES SUFFERING
FROM ELUSIVE AND MISUNDERSTOOD
ILLNESSES TO HUMANIZE THEIR
STRUGGLE AND SHOW THAT STRUGGLE
UNDER ALL ITS COMPLEXITY.
DAVID, HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO
EXHIBIT B?
THE EXPLANATION?
>> THEY FAILED MISERABLY.
WHAT NETFLIX DID FOR THEIR OWN
PROFIT, THEY HAD ALL OF THE
POWER, THEY HAD ALL OF THE
ABILITY TO DICTATE THE TERMS
THEY FOUND THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
VULNERABLE, DEALING WITH THE
TRAGIC HEALTH ISSUES.
AND INSTEAD OF DOING WHAT THEY
TOLD THEM THEY WERE GOING TO DO,
WHICH WAS, THEY WERE GOING TO
DOCUMENT, GET EXPERTS, LOOK AT
THIS OBJECTIVELY, THEY TURNED IT
TO A MOCKERY AND ALMOST KIND OF
BASHED THEM FRAUDULENTLY.
THE PROBLEM WITH THIS, SHANNON,
IS NOT JUST A BAD TELEVISION
SHOW OR BAD NEWSPAPER ARTICLE,
BUT WITH THE INTERNET AND THE
ADVENT OF THE NEW MEDIA, THIS
STAYS FOREVER.
GRANDCHILDREN THAT AREN'T EVEN
BORN YET ARE GOING TO SEE THIS.
NETFLIX MAKES ALL OF THE MONEY
AND THEY SIT THERE AND ABUSE THE
VULNERABLE PEOPLE AND WANT TO
TURN AROUND AND SAY, OH, WE'RE
NOT RESPONSIBLE.
YOU CAN SUE A DOCTOR FOR
MALPRACTICE, A LAWYER FOR
MALPRACTICE, BUT NETFLIX, OH,
GOD FORBID WE HOLD THEM
ACCOUNTABLE FOR LYING AND
FRAUDULENTLY ABUSING VULNERABLE
PEOPLE.
>> AND THE PLAINTIFFS MAKE ALL
KINDS OF CLAIMS SAYING THEY'RE
FORCED INTO TREATMENTS OR PUSHED
INTO THINGS OR EVEN WHEN THEIR
DOCKS TOER SAY IT WON'T WORK FOR
YOU AND IT'S NOT GOOD TREATMENT,
NETFLIX WOULD PORTRAY THEM AS
TURNING DOWN A TREATMENT THAT
SHOULD HAVE BEEN REASONABLE.
>> THAT'S NETFLIX IS PLAYING
DOCTOR WITHOUT A MEDICAL
LICENSE.
>> THERE'S 50 PAGES IN THE
COMPLAINT SAYING A ALL OF THE
WAYS THEY WERE TOLD IT WOULD BE
A SYMPATHETIC VIEW AND WHAT IT
TURNED OUT TO BE WAS SOMETHING
THAT MADE THEM IN MANIPULATED
SITUATIONS THEY ALLEGED BY
NETFLIX MADE THEM LOOK LIKE
THEY'RE NOT GOOD, RESPONSIBLE,
MENTALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE.
>> THIS IS, OF COURSE, THE
PLAINTIFFS' COMPLAINT AGAINST
NETFLIX.
WE'RE NOT READING NETFLIX'S
RESPONSE FROM THAT.
THOSE PEOPLE HAD THE ABILITY TO
LEAVE THE PRODUCTION AT ANY
TIME.
IF THEY FELT THEY WERE FORCED TO
MEDICAL PROCEDURES THEY DIDN'T
WANT TO TAKE, THEY COULD LEAVE
THE PRODUCTION.
THIS IS ALL VOLUNTARY, THIS IS
ALL CONTRACTS THEY SIGNED ON TO.
THEY HAD THE ABILITY TO REVIEW
THE CONTRACTS.
SO IF YOU SIGNED UP FOR
SOMETHING AS AN ADULT PERSON WHO
HAS THE FULL CAPACITY TO DO SO,
YOU CANNOT COMPLAIN THEREAFTER
AND SUE THEM OUTSIDE OF THE
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT.
>> QUICK FINAL WORD.
>> OUR PRESIDENT TALKS ABOUT
FAKE NEWS, NETFLIX IS DOING
ABUSIVE NEWS, DISTORTION, IT
NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
THEY'RE MAKING ALL OF THE MONEY.
>> BY THE WAY, WE REACHED OUT TO
THEM FOR A SPECIFIC COMMENT.