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11-21-2002, 07:16 PM
Judges Hand Disney Devastating Loss in Pooh Appeal (http://www.american-reporter.com/1979/1.html) - The American Reporter, 11/21/02
QuikQuote: With the latest ruling, Disney now must listen as the jury at a trial scheduled for March 2003 is instructed that a senior executive who signed the 1983 contract, the late Vince Jefferds, promised the Tampa, Fla.-based licensing firm that it would be paid for videocassettes and other "future" uses of Pooh. Pooh DVDs were the top seller for the studio in 2001. Disney can only argue that Jefferds did not have the authority to make the promise, the trial judge ruled.
The appellate judges, who heard the case just last Friday, seemed peeved at Petrocelli, according to reports from people in the courtroom, when he argued that only a handful of documents had been destroyed. An attorney for Slesinger, Hollywood superlawyer Bert Fields, responded by reading a long list of the documents from a master index of those destroyed.
QuikQuote: With the latest ruling, Disney now must listen as the jury at a trial scheduled for March 2003 is instructed that a senior executive who signed the 1983 contract, the late Vince Jefferds, promised the Tampa, Fla.-based licensing firm that it would be paid for videocassettes and other "future" uses of Pooh. Pooh DVDs were the top seller for the studio in 2001. Disney can only argue that Jefferds did not have the authority to make the promise, the trial judge ruled.
The appellate judges, who heard the case just last Friday, seemed peeved at Petrocelli, according to reports from people in the courtroom, when he argued that only a handful of documents had been destroyed. An attorney for Slesinger, Hollywood superlawyer Bert Fields, responded by reading a long list of the documents from a master index of those destroyed.