WILLIAMS v. CRICHTON

No. 1233, Docket 94-7951.

84 F.3d 581 (1996)

Geoffrey T. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael CRICHTON; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; Random House, Inc.; Universal City Studios, Inc.; MCA, Inc.; Amblin Entertainment, Inc.; Steven Spielberg; David Koepp, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome R. Halperin, New York City (Guy S. Halperin, Kyle Mallary Halperin, Halperin Klein & Halperin, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard Dannay, New York City (David O. Carson, Schwab Goldberg Price & Dannay, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before OAKES, WINTER and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:

Geoffrey T. Williams ("Williams") appeals a summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Lawrence M. McKenna, Judge, entered August 25, 1994, in favor of Appellees Michael Crichton, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Random House, Inc., Universal City Studios, Inc., MCA, Inc., Amblin Entertainment, Inc., Steven Spielberg, and David Koepp, on Williams's claim of copyright infringement.

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