Court documents obtained in November state that the arbitrator in the hearing found that “Spacey’s conduct constituted a material breach of his acting and executive producing agreements with MRC, and that his breaches excused MRC’s obligations to pay him any further compensation in connection with the show.”
The court documents continued, “The Arbitrator further found that Spacey’s egregious breaches of contract proximately caused and rendered him liable for the tens of millions of dollars in losses MRC suffered when it had no choice, upon the revelations of Spacey’s pattern of harassment, to halt the production of season 6 of the show, to rewrite the entire season to omit Spacey’s character, and to shorten season 6 from 13 to 8 episodes to meet delivery deadlines.
The judge in the case told Spacey and his lawyers that a trial — which is expected to last between three and four weeks — would start June 6, 2023.