Legal Opinion
Maheu v. CBS, INC.
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 24, 1988No. B026485PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GEORGE, J.
Robert Maheu appeals from an order of dismissal entered after the trial court sustained demurrers to his fourth amended complaint without leave to amend. The action arose out of the publication of Citizen Hughes, a best-selling book about Howard Hughes.
Appellant was Hughes’s aide from approximately 1956 to 1970. Appellant never met Hughes personally, but communicated with him largely by means of written notes throughout the final decades of Hughes’s life. Appellant brought his action against Donald Ray Woolbright, author Michael Drosnin, publishers CBS, Inc., Bantam Books and…
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