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BURROUGHS v. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, INC.

No. 220, Docket 81-7506.

683 F.2d 610 (1982)

Danton BURROUGHS, as Executor of the Will of John Coleman Burroughs, Deceased, Hulbert Burroughs, Joanne Pierce Anselmo, James Michael Pierce and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER, INC. and United Artists Corporation, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger L. Zissu, New York City (Alan Latman, Carol F. Simkin, James F. Lightstone, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

Douglas C. Fairhurst, New York City (Robin Bierstedt, Townley & Updike, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before NEWMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and EGINTON, District Judge.

KEARSE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by plaintiffs, who are the heirs of author Edgar Rice Burroughs ("Burroughs") and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. ("ERB, Inc."), the corporation Burroughs formed to own, license, and control the rights in his literary works, from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Henry F. Werker, Judge, entered on cross-motions for summary judgment, denying plaintiffs' request for injunctive...

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