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Film Allman has lost big in a ruling concerning insurer New York Marine who had settled with the family of Sarah Jones, the 27-year-old camera assistant killed on the set after Randall Miller put his crew on live train tracks. Film Allman, last month, filed a motion saying that the FBI was investigating whether Miller…

EXCLUSIVE: New, un-redacted information revealing what specific supervising crew members did (or did not do) on the set of Midnight Rider has been put into a Department of Labor court filing to refute producer Film Allman’s claim that it was not guilty of a “willful safety violation.” The brief asks the 11th Circuit…

EXCLUSIVE: Lawyers for Film Allman LLC have appealed the Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission decision against the company to the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta in an effort to overturn a judge’s decision that it must pay about $75K in fines in the on-set death of one crew member and injuries to several…

UPDATED, 10:44 AM: OSHA just released a statement about the ruling today from Judge Sharon D. Calhoun of the OSHA review commission that handed a defeat to Film Allman and the defendants fighting the safety citations and fine on the set of Midnight Rider. The statement from Kurt Petermeyer, OSHA's regional…

UPDATE, 9:44 AM: Film Allman LLC lawyers continued this morning in federal court in Savannah, GA arguing against the OSHA citations and $74,900 in fines. This has really become a mini-trial about whether Midnight Rider filmmakers intentionally put their crew in jeopardy on February 20, 2014 when they criminally…

EXCLUSIVE: In this exclusive video shot for Deadline by Patricia Leon, Midnight Rider director Randall Miller is seen officially agreeing to the plea deal that ended the trial against him and his wife, and will lead to a historic first felony conviction of a filmmaker for an on-set death. Here, Miller and his…

UPDATED 12:05 PM: We’ve updated the story with comments from Miller and Savin’s attorney Ed Garland defending his clients and comments from the Judge in sentencing Miller. UPDATE, 9:08 AM: Midnight Rider executive producer and unit production manager Jay Sedrish gets probation and will not serve jail time in the…

The Wi-Fi password in the Georgia courthouse where the Midnight Rider defendants will be standing trial beginning March 9 appears to show a distinct bias against criminal defendants. The court's password is LOCKUMALLUP** (Lock ‘Em All Up — password partially redacted). "That seems highly inappropriate to me," Don…

Despite settling with the family of camera assistant Sarah Jones last week, Midnight Rider’s director and producer are still trying to escape the sights of rail company CSX. Randall Miller and Jody Savin today asked a Georgia court to dismiss them and their business entities from a cross-claim by CSX, whose remaining…

The lawyer for the family of Sarah Jones said today that it has reached an agreement with Midnight Rider director Randall Miller, his wife and producer Jody Savin, and several crewmembers in the wrongful death civil lawsuit filed after their daughter was killed during production in February on a train trestle in rural…

UPDATED WITH NEW INFO: A trial date of March 9, 2015 has been set in the manslaughter and criminal trespass case of the four filmmakers indicted in the on-set death of 27-year-old Midnight Rider camera assistant Sarah Jones. Pre-trial motions will be heard for two days prior, on February 12-13, and jury selection…

4th UPDATE, AUGUST 18, 7:58 AM: Jay Sedrish, the executive producer/unit production manager of the ill-fated Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider, waived his right for an arraignment early this morning and has entered a not guilty plea to criminal trespassing and involuntary manslaughter in the on-set death of…