“Yes,” said a representative of CalAware, which mainly focuses on government transparency. “It states that a book about his experiences with SeaWorld would violate the nondisclosure agreement that bound him as an employee and continues to bind him as a former employee, and that SeaWorld intends to take legal action to enforce the agreement. Hargrove subsequently released to the news media my letter is consistent with his apparent desire to obtain additional publicity for himself and his book.īut experts with Californians Aware, a journalist resource group, saw a threat in the letter.

Chua-Eoan co-authored the book, which covers. Hargrove, his attorneys filed a meritless class action lawsuit against the company in what appeared to be an attempt to garner publicity for his book. Hargrove is the author of a memoir, Beneath the Surface, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Hargrove. Quite to the contrary, it constitutes a reservation of rights that is typical of letters of this type. You should be aware that when SeaWorld did not sue Mr. Beneath the Surface by John Hargrove, Howard Chua-Eoan: 9781101926468 : Books Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld’s U.S. The concluding paragraph of my letter does not contain a threat to sue Mr. Hargrove was one of the first voices heard in Blackfish, the 2013 documentary that raised questions about SeaWorld’s practices it was released three years after the death of a SeaWorld trainer. Hargrove signed an employee agreement in February 2008 but not the “declaration” demanded by SeaWorld in the Nov.

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