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MARINO v. WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, EAST, INC.

No. 91-56497.

992 F.2d 1480 (1993)

Nick MARINO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, EAST, INC.; Writers Guild of America, West, Inc.; Francis Ford Coppola; and Mario Puzo, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 12, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary E. Gans, Kenoff & Machtinger, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Julius M. Reich, and J. David Sackman Members of Reich, Adell & Crost, A Professional Law Corp., Doreen Braverman, Cynthia R. Saffir, Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees.

Before: WALLACE, Chief Judge, O'SCANNLAIN and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.

FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:

Nick Marino appeals the district court's summary judgment in favor of the Writers Guild of America ("WGA"), Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo in Marino's action seeking to vacate an arbitration award. WGA, as arbitrator, awarded screenwriting credit for "Godfather III" to Coppola and Puzo, and not to Marino and his cohort, Thomas Wright. Marino contends that the arbitration procedures used to determine the screenwriting credit were fundamentally...

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