Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg struck out Tuesday in his quixotic effort to reinstate Doug Allen as guild topper due to procedural errors with his legal filing, but his attorneys promised they’ll refile shortly and try again.

On a day that had been scheduled to mark the restart of SAG’s negotiations with the congloms, SAG’s future wound up instead in the hands of L.A. Superior Court Judge James Chalfant.

The judge denied Rosenberg’s application Tuesday for a temporary restraining order that would have invalidated last week’s moves by the guild’s national board to fire Allen and replace the guild’s feature-primetime negotiating committee. Sonia Lee, an attorney for Rosenberg, told Chalfant that the motion for a temporary restraining order would be amended for a hearing on Thursday morning.

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