DANJAQ LLC v. SONY CORPORATION

No. 00-55781.

263 F.3d 942 (2001)

DANJAQ LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., a Delaware corporation; United Artists Corporation, a Delaware corporation; United Artists Pictures Inc., a Delaware corporation; Seventeen Leasing Corporation, a Delaware corporation; Eighteen Leasing Corporation, a Delaware corporation; MGM/UA Communications Co., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SONY CORPORATION, a Japanese corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Columbia Pictures Television, Inc., a Delaware corporation; John Calley, an individual, Defendants, and Kevin O'Conovan McClory; Spectre Associates, Inc., an entity of unknown capacity, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 27, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin McClory, defendant-appellant, in propria persona.

Paul J. Cohen, Segal, Cohen & Landis, Beverly Hills, California, and Lucile Hotton Lynch, Carlsbad, California (argued), for defendant-appellant Spectre Associates, Inc.

Marc A. Becker, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, California, and Pierce O'Donnell, O'Donnell & Shaeffer, LLP, Los Angeles, California (argued), for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges, and David Warner Hagen, District Judge.


Argued and Submitted May 11, 2001 — Pasadena, California.

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

"We have all the time in the world." "Equity aids the vigilant." — Epitaph for Mrs. Bond in — Anonymous For Your Eyes Only (Danjaq Productions 1981)

Every so often, the law shakes off its cobwebs to produce a story far too improbable even...

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