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RODRIGUE v. RODRIGUE

No. 99-30334.

218 F.3d 432 (2000)

George G. RODRIGUE, Jr. and Richard Steiner, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Veronica Hidalgo RODRIGUE, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

As Revised August 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kyle D. Schonekas (argued), Patrick Shaw McGoey, Schoenekas, Evans & McGoey, New Orleans, LA, Cynthia Carrie LeBourgeois, Lafayette, LA, for Rodrigue, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Dane S. Ciolino (argued), Loyola Law School, New Orleans, LA, for Steiner, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mark P. Seyler (argued), Robert E. Barkley, Jr., Barkley & Thompson, Cynthia A. Samuel, New Orleans, LA, for Rodrigue, Defendant-Appellant.

Before GARWOOD, WIENER, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

Our task in this appeal, before us under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b), is to sort out and reconcile the respective rights and obligations of authors under federal copyright law and their spouses under Louisiana community property law when those two legal regimes intersect. Defendant-Appellant Veronica Hidalgo Rodrigue ("Veronica") asks us to reverse the district court's ruling that, by virtue of copyright law, her ex-husband, Plaintiff...

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