A jury in Seattle has found against Huong Hoang, the actress who sued the Internet Movie Database and its parent company, Amazon, for posting her age without her permission. The verdict, reached in Federal court on Thursday, rejected a breach of contract claim against IMDb by Ms. Hoang, who uses the name Junie Hoang in her screen work. Marsha J. Pechman, a judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, had already dropped Amazon from the case, and dismissed other claims.
Lawyers for Ms. Hoang, now 41, argued that IMDb, a popular on-line database covering film and television, had opened the door to age discrimination against her by posting her age, which it discovered by using information she provided as a subscriber. After Ms. Hoang filed the suit in 2011, the Screen Actors Guild publicly criticized IMDb for its practice of posting performers’ ages. But the jury on Thursday found that the service had not violated its contract with Ms. Hoang, and awarded no damages.
