Team Angry Filmworks, Inc. v. Geer

OPINION

CONTI, Chief District Judge

I. Introduction

California film-production company Team Angry Filmworks, Inc. (“plaintiff’) calls upon the court to declare that Philip Francis Nowlan’s 1928 science-fiction novella Armageddon-2419 A.D. (‘Armageddon’’) and character “Buck Rogers” entered the public domain, pursuant to the Declaratory Judgment Act (the “DJA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2201(a). As trustee of the Dille Family Trust (the “Trust”), defendant Louise A. Geer (“defendant”) filed a motion:

• to dismiss this action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) for failure to present a justiciable…