Civil Litigation
Mar. 21, 2023
Subpoena scope limited in matter of alleged stolen movie
The writer sued Creative Artists Agency LLC in 2019, accusing two of the company’s agents of misappropriating a TV pilot he brought to them, also entitled “Main Justice.” According to an amended complaint, his pilot, like the 2019 TV movie, centered on a fictional U.S. attorney general.
A Los Angeles judge on Monday limited the scope of subpoenas against CBS Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television by a TV writer who claimed his show idea was stolen for a TV movie.
While Judge Yolanda Orozco declined to quash the subpoenas in their entirety, she did excuse the defendants from providing all the information requested by the plaintiff while continuing a motion to quash by the writer of a TV movie allegedly based on the plai...
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