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MUSTO v. MEYER

No. 75 Civ. 6411.

434 F.Supp. 32 (1977)

David F. MUSTO, Plaintiff, v. Nicholas MEYER, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., and Universal Pictures, a division of Universal City Studios, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

June 24, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Siris, New York City, for plaintiff.

Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, New York City, for defendants, Roger Bryant Hunting, Jeremy Nussbaum, Richard Paul Richman, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

BONSAL, District Judge.

As the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in The Yellow-Face, which appears in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes published by Penguin Books, "[s]ave for the occasional use of cocaine he [Holmes] had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting." This passage provides a backdrop for this lawsuit.

Plaintiff, David...

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