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Mar 27, 2017 Robin Meadow, Robert A. Olson, Alana H. Rotter Entertainment Law

Wind Dancer Production Group v. Walt Disney Pictures (2017) 10 Cal.App.5th 56

GMSR obtains reversal of summary judgment in Home Improvement profit-participation case, enabling the creators/producers to proceed to trial

Sep 13, 2016 Alana H. Rotter

What Do You Want?

Every appellate brief urges the court to rule in the briefing party’s favor. But far fewer briefs say exactly how the court should do so, and why. That lack of specificity is a mistake. A party’s job on appeal is to make it as easy

Jul 14, 2016 Alana H. Rotter Anti-SLAPP Law

Appealing Anti-Slapp Rulings in the Ninth Circuit

In the California state courts, every order granting or denying an anti-SLAPP motion is immediately appealable. But anti-SLAPP appealability is more of a minefield in the Ninth Circuit. There, an anti-SLAPP ruling is appealable only if it satisfies the requirements of the “collateral order doctrine”

May 13, 2016 Alana H. Rotter

Handling Bad Law

When drafting an opening brief on appeal, it can be tempting to avoid adverse authority — and on a first read, the brief might appear stronger that way. That’s wishful thinking. As Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner has observed, “The ostrich is a noble animal,

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