Flynn v. AK Peters, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff, an engineer and writer, brought suit against her publisher for accepting book revisions from her co-author without her consent and for giving a third individual co-authorship credit when she felt that his effort did not merit such credit. After losing her Lanham Act claim at summary judgment, and suffering judgment as a matter of law and an adverse jury verdict on her remaining claims at trial (as well as a judgment against her for attorney’s fees post-trial), Flynn raises a bevy of claims on appeal. We affirm.
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We set forth the background, reserving some of the…
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