Legal Opinion
Cornwell v. Sachs
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided May 18, 2000No. CIV A 3:00CV229PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PAYNE, District Judge.
Patricia Cornwell, a world renowned author of crime novels, filed this action against local author Leslie Raymond Sachs, asserting claims of defamation and violations of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) and Virginia’s privacy statute, Va.Code Ann. § 8.01-40. Cornwell simultaneously moved for a preliminary injunction to restrain Sachs from the unauthorized use of her name and from issuing false and misleading advertising by making statements asserting that a novel published in 1998 by Sachs was the basis for Cornwell’s yet-to-be-published novel, The…
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