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WHITFIELD v. LEAR

No. 28, Docket 84-7361.

751 F.2d 90 (1984)

Thurman V. WHITFIELD, Appellant, v. Norman LEAR, Tandem Productions, Inc., TAT Communications Co., Topper Carew and Rainbow Television Workshop, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 14, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thurman V. Whitfield, pro se.

Stephen F. Huff, New York City (Jamie M. Brickell, Pryor, Cashman, Sherman & Flynn, New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before OAKES and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and CLARIE, District Judge.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Thurman V. Whitfield, pro se, appeals from a grant of summary judgment. 582 F.Supp. 1186. His complaint invoked a variety of legal theories arising from defendants' alleged misappropriation of ideas contained in a television script he authored. Because we believe that the similarities between appellant's script and the appellees' television series can be appraised only by comparing the actual scripts...

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