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KIENZLE v. CAPITAL CITIES/AMERICAN BROADCASTING

No. 90-71250.

774 F.Supp. 432 (1991)

William X. KIENZLE, Father Robert Morand, Father Norman Thomas, Father Thomas Finnigan, Father Thomas McAnoy, Father James Robinson, Plaintiffs, v. CAPITAL CITIES/AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., a foreign corporation, and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, a foreign corporation, jointly and severally, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D.

August 6, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott E. Combs, Soll, Crowley, Berman, Olsman & Nolan, P.C., Royal Oak, Mich., Geoffrey N. Fieger and Michael Alan Schwartz, Fieger & Fieger, P.C., Southfield, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Herschel P. Fink and Michael A. Gruskin, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn, Detroit, Mich., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

COHN, District Judge.

I.

The claims in this case are based on allegations of a misappropriation of ideas. Plaintiff, William X. Kienzle (Kienzle), is a nationally renowned novelist. In 1980, Kienzle submitted to defendant, Capitol Cities/American Broadcasting Company, Inc. (ABC), a proposal for a television series.1 The proposed series was a situation comedy involving occurrences at an innercity...

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