Judge Rules CAA May Have Blacklisted ‘The Newsroom’ Staff Writer but Didn’t Steal Pilot

In a decision handed down on Monday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that CAA didn’t steal a pilot idea from former “The Newsroom” staff writer John Musero.

However, Judge Kerry Bensinger did determine that the agency may have blacklisted Musero and will allow that claim to be decided by a jury in a trial set to begin Oct. 27.

Musero, a former prosecutor and staff writer for Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom,” filed his lawsuit in 2019. In it, he said he developed a pilot...