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RICHLIN v. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES, INC.

No. 06-55307.

531 F.3d 962 (2008)

Bradley RICHLIN; Lance Richlin; Mark Mannis; Abigail Richlin Schwartz, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Louise Richlin; Elyssa Parton; Michelle Forkel, Nominal Defendants and Involuntary Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES, INC.; Geoffrey Productions, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 19, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Randol Schoenberg, Laura A. Gibbons, Burris & Schoenberg, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Thomas A. Brackey, Freund & Brackey LLP, Beverly Hills, CA, for the Plaintiffs-appellants, and nominal defendants and involuntary plaintiffs-appellants.

Jonathan Zavin, Jacques M. Rimokh, Loeb & Loeb LLP, New York, NY; David Grossman, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and RANER C. COLLINS, District Judge.

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, famously unable to crack the simplest of murder cases, would most certainly be confounded by the case we face. While Inspector Clouseau searched for the answer to the question, "Who did it?", we must search for the answer to the question, "Who owns it?" In 1962, Maurice Richlin coauthored a story treatment (the "Treatment")1 involving the bumbling...

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