Intellectual Property,
Entertainment & Sports,
Civil Litigation
Jul. 9, 2024
Attorney for Road House screenwriter moves to strike Amazon countersuit
"Try as they might to deflect and convert this federal copyright case into a state-law contest, defendants' punitive counterclaim for breach of contract fails as a matter of law and should be stricken," attorney Marc Toberoff wrote in the motion to strike.
Amazon's movie studio must drop its "baseless" counterclaims that challenge the validity of a screenwriter's ownership of the 1989 "Road House" film pursuant to the protected activity prong of California's Anti-SLAPP statute, the writer's attorney argued in a court filing lodged Friday.
"Defendants lead with neither facts nor the law in their overwrought, insult-laden answer and countercomplaint against the author plaintiff R. Lance Hill an...
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