WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD v. PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD, INC.

Nos. 99-55850, 99-56489, 99-55934, 99-56005.

227 F.3d 1110 (2000)

WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD, a California Corporation, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD, INC., an Oklahoma Corporation, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 18, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan Browne, Benjamin D. Scheibe, Sylvia P. Lardiere, Browne & Woods, LLP, Beverly Hills, California; Ralph K. Helge, Pasadena, CA, for the plaintiff/counter-defendant/appellant.

Mark B. Helm, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, California, and Kelly M. Klaus, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant/counter-claimant-appellee.

Before: BRUNETTI and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges, SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.


SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge:

Appellant Worldwide Church of God ("WCG") is a nonprofit religious organization whose late Pastor General, Herbert W. Armstrong, wrote a 380-page book entitled Mystery of the Ages ("MOA"), the copyright to which is held by WCG. After Armstrong's death, WCG retired MOA from distribution and use. Appellee Philadelphia Church of God ("PCG"), also a nonprofit religious organization, then appropriated MOA for...

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