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PAWELEK v. PARAMOUNT STUDIOS CORP.

Nos. 83 C 5109, 83 C 5487.

571 F.Supp. 1082 (1983)

Anne PAWELEK, individually, etc., Plaintiffs, v. PARAMOUNT STUDIOS CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

September 27, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Pawelek, pro se.

Robert W. Bergstrom, Ronald W. Teeple and John L. Leonard, Bergstrom, Davis & Teeple, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

Anne Pawelek ("Pawelek") has filed each of these lawsuits as a purported class action against Paramount Studios Corporation, its Chairman Barry Diller and all other Paramount "owners and executives" (collectively "Paramount" in the singular). Both suits share a single gravamen: the claimed impropriety of Paramount's inclusion of "Polish jokes" in its motion picture "Flashdance."1

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