Monster Energy’s Confidential Settlement Breach Claim Reinstated

Monster Energy Co.‘s claims that an attorney who filed a wrongful death action against the company violated a confidentiality agreement by making public statements about the settlement are back on.

Monster Energy may pursue its breach of contract claims against Bruce Schechter and his firm, R. Rex Parris Law Firm, the California Supreme Court said July 11.

The defendants argued that the suit was intended to chill their exercise of free speech, and the lower court dismissed it under the state’s law on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation.

But the high court said it’ss possible that the defendants intended ...