Journey’s Jonathan Cain Says Neal Schon Is Backtracking in Court
A brand new authorized submitting from Jonathan Cain accuses Journey bandmate Neal Schon of reneging on a mediated settlement to finish their bitter public feud over band funds.
Schon made a public assertion final week stating that he’d agreed to Cain’s request to nominate a tiebreaking third occasion to assist handle Freedom 2020, the enterprise subsidiary Cain and Schon shaped to handle their touring operation. Cain’s newest petition to a Delaware choose says Schon is “now seeking to inappropriately limit the role of the custodian.”
Cain’s lawyer Kasey H. DeSantis calls this “inconsistent with respondent’s counsel’s prior communications with the court and Discovery Facilitator Joseph Slights explicitly agreeing to the appointment of a third deadlock-breaking director.”
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Cain filed a lawsuit in late July charging Schon with creating deep monetary strains on the group’s ongoing stadium tour with Def Leppard and Steve Miller by rampant overspending. He mentioned Schon was losing as much as $10,000 an evening, whereas once more maxing out the group’s American Express card.
Journey’s ‘Very Toxic Work Environment’
Judge J. Travis Laster fast-tracked the proceedings at a listening to held on Aug. 7 and appointed Slights, an ex-Delaware choose, to function a mediator in the case. Schon then accused Cain of being “slanderous” and making a “very toxic work environment” in social media posts.
Nevertheless, they reportedly got here to a tentative settlement to resolve the matter on Aug. 22. Now Cain is asking Laster to approve the sooner model of the settlement.
Journey’s fall 2024 exhibits in the U.Ok. and Ireland had been abruptly canceled after Cain filed go well with. It’s unclear what position, if any, was performed by background monetary points or this new authorized wrangling. Journey’s present dates with Def Leppard conclude in early September. They beforehand toured collectively in 2018.
Nick DeRiso is writer of the Amazon best-selling rock band bio ‘Journey: Worlds Apart,’ out there now in any respect main bookseller web sites.
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