Legal Opinion
Konigsberg Intl. Inc. The Sanitsky Company v. Anne Rice, (Two Cases)
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 11, 1994No. 92-55425, 93-55122PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
Inside many a practicing lawyer there’s a novelist struggling to be born. The converse is also true: Novelists sometimes yearn to be lawyers. All things considered, it’s best if all concerned stick with their own callings.
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In 1987, after a lunch meeting with movie producers Frank Konigsberg and Larry San-itsky, author Anne Rice allegedly entered into an oral agreement to sketch out a romantic melodrama involving a love triangle between a resurrected mummy, an English heiress and Queen Cleopatra. Based on this simple premise, Rice would create a “bible” — a detailed…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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