KOURTIS v. CAMERON

No. 03-56703.

419 F.3d 989 (2005)

Filia KOURTIS; Con Kourtis, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James CAMERON; International Creative Management; Mario P. Kassar; Jeffrey Berg; Joseph Rosenberg, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submission Withdrawn May 9, 2005.

Resubmitted August 8, 2005.

Filed August 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia J. Barry, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause for the appellants and filed the briefs.

Marisa G. Westervelt, Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro LLP, Los Angeles, CA, and Charles N. Shephard, Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman, Machtinger & Kinsella LLP, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause for the appellees; Louis R. Miller, Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro LLP, Los Angeles, CA, and Howard L. Horwitz, Oberstein, Kibre & Horwitz, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, were on the briefs.

Before O'SCANNLAIN and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and LOVELL, District Judge.


O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.

We must decide whether the creators of the yet-unproduced film The Minotaur are collaterally estopped from pursuing a copyright infringement claim against the producers of Terminator II.

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In 1987, Filia and Constantinos Kourtis developed the concept for a film entitled The Minotaur, which details the exploits of a half-man, half-bull that can transform itself into various human and inanimate forms...

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