Legal Opinion
Shaw v. Lindheim
District Court, C.D. California
Decided September 4, 1992No. CV 87-6926 AHSPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW; CONDITIONALLY GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL
STOTLER, District Judge.
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BACKGROUND
Like his character “The Equalizer,” plaintiff Lou Shaw has been attempting to “equalize the odds” against him in a five-year court battle that has taken him from this Court to the Ninth Circuit and back again.
Lou Shaw is a well-known writer and producer in Hollywood; defendant Richard Lindheim is an entertainment industry executive who was in the Dramatic Programming Division of NBC Television when he entered into a February, 1978…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Brown Bag Software v. Symantec Corp.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1992
- Lou Shaw Eastborne Productions, Inc. v. Richard Lindheim Michael Sloan Universal City Studios, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting Systems McA Television, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990
- Draper v. Airco, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1978
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation v. McA Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983
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