MILTON H. GREENE ARCHIVES v. MARILYN MONROE LLC

Nos. 08-56471, 08-56472, 08-56552.

692 F.3d 983 (2012)

MILTON H. GREENE ARCHIVES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MARILYN MONROE LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company; Anna Strasberg, an individual, Defendants-Appellants, and CMG Worldwide Inc., an Indiana Corporation, Defendants. Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CMG Worldwide Inc., an Indiana Corporation, Defendant-Appellant, and Marilyn Monroe LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company; Anna Strasberg, an individual, Defendants. The Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc., Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant. Tom Kelley Studios, Inc., Defendant-counter-plaintiff-Appellant, v. CMG Worldwide Inc., an Indiana Corporation; Marilyn Monroe LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company; Anna Strasberg, an individual, Defendants-counter-plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 30, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas E. Mirell , Laura A. Wytsma and Benjamin R. King , Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for appellants and cross-appellees Anna Strasberg and Marilyn Monroe LLC.

Theodore J. Minch , Sovich Minch LLP, McCordsville, IN, and William Weinberger , Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian, Los Angeles, CA, for appellant and cross-appellee, CMG Worldwide, Inc.

Surjit P. Soni , Leo E. Lundberg, Jr. and M. Danton Richardson , The Soni Law Firm, Pasadena, CA, for appellees and cross-appellants The Milton Green Archives, Inc. and Tom Kelley Studios, Inc.

Before: ALFRED T. GOODWIN and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM K. SESSIONS III, District Judge.


OPINION

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:

An enduring American celebrity, Marilyn Monroe continues to inspire both admiration and litigation a half-century after her death.1 At issue is whether appellants inherited a right of publicity, which was created and deemed posthumous by the states of California and Indiana decades after her death, through a residual clause in her Last Will and Testament. The will was subject to probate in the...

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