Black Lawyer’s Loss Against Esports Companies, Officers Upheld

Esports company VVP Services LLC and individuals behind the venture were properly granted dismissal of a Black former in-house attorney’s bias, contract, and tort claims.

Karen Suber failed to show that the Manhattan federal court where she sued had personal jurisdiction over VVP; three related companies; and the founders of the “up-and-coming esports venture,” Stratton Sclavos and Amit Raizada, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Friday. Suber sued after working as a lead transactional attorney for VVP for roughly four months after allegedly being wooed away from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP on the promise of ...