{"id":18265,"date":"2014-02-26T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2014-02-26T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:43:28","slug":"lawsuit-over-trouble-with-the-curve-likely-to-be-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=18265","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit over “Trouble With The Curve” likely to be dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that lawsuit I told you about over the Clint Eastwood movie,<\/a> Trouble With The Curve<\/em>? Not that long ago, either.<\/p>\n

Nor is the plaintiff’s case. Running that long, I mean. According to Michael Cieply in the New York Times<\/a>, the judge read, reviewed, screened and compared all of the disputed properties and:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not substantially similar,\u201d said Judge Fischer, who said she had watched the film and read the scripts.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a summary judgment motion. Summary judgment: when either the plaintiff or, in this case, the defendant, believes he\/she has enough proof for a slam-dunk decision without going through the hoopla of trial, he\/she goes directly to the judge and asks that the case be decided on that motion.<\/p>\n

These “he stole my script!” lawsuits are, as I mentioned in my previous note about this case, really hard to prove.\u00a0 (See previous piece for very short dissertation about ur-stories.)<\/p>\n

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