Civil Litigation,
California Courts of Appeal
Sep. 12, 2025
Judge keeps Frank Miller's comic adaptation dispute alive for jury
Judge Doreen Boxer denied comics creator Frank Miller's summary judgment bid, allowing producer Stephen L'Heureux to take his good faith claim over the "Hard Boiled" adaptation rights dispute to a jury.
A Los Angeles judge has kept alive a key claim in a long-running legal battle involving celebrated comics creator Frank Miller, whose works include "Sin City" and "300." Denying Miller's bid for summary judgment, Judge Doreen B. Boxer ruled that producer Stephen L'Heureux can take his case to a jury over allegations tied to efforts to adapt Miller's graphic novel "Hard Boiled" for the screen.
Boxer denied a summary judgment motion brought ...
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