Legal Opinion
Idema v. Dreamworks, Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided September 10, 2001No. CV0010316ABC (RNBX)PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER RE: DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND TO DISMISS
COLLINS, District Judge.
In this civil action complaining of alleged misappropriation of Plaintiffs’ ideas and expression for the creation and production of the 1997 motion picture “The Peacemak er,” Plaintiffs allege claims of direct and contributory copyright infringement, and eleven associated claims under different state laws. Defendants have filed two motions: the first seeks summary judgment on Plaintiffs’ first two (copyright) claims; the second seeks dismissal of Plaintiffs’ state law claims. Both motions came on for a…
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