GOODMAN v. LEE

No. 91-3775.

988 F.2d 619 (1993)

Shirley GOODMAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Audrey LEE and Nikki N. Lee, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 20, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin Spiegel Osher, Beverly Hills, CA, Madeleine Fischer, George R. Alvey, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre, New Orleans, LA, for defendants-appellants.

Richard E. Bennett, Bennett & King, New York City, David Robert Paddison, Covington, LA, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges, and DOHERTY, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Shirley Goodman, sued Audrey Lee and Nikki Lee, widow and surviving child of Leonard Lee, who died in 1976 ("Lees"), for authorship and copyright and ownership rights to the 1956 Rock and Roll hit, "Let the Good Times Roll," recorded by Leonard Lee and Shirley Goodman when they performed professionally as the duo of "Shirley and Lee." This case has had a long and varied procedural history leading to and through the trial on January 14 and 15, 1988 which...

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