Darkbeer
10-10-2003, 05:27 PM
Disney foes in Pooh case switch lawyers again (http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=386694§ion=news) - Reuters, 10/10/03
QuikQuote: For the second time in four months, attorneys representing a family suing Walt Disney Co. for hundreds of millions of royalty dollars are withdrawing from the Winnie the Pooh marketing rights case, the family says.
Citing a mounting legal bill, Stephen Slesinger Inc., the family company founded by the literary agent who acquired U.S. marketing rights to the honey-loving bear from British author A.A. Milne decades ago, dismissed the legal firm of Jones Day on Friday, which had stepped into the case in June after another firm left.
QuikQuote: For the second time in four months, attorneys representing a family suing Walt Disney Co. for hundreds of millions of royalty dollars are withdrawing from the Winnie the Pooh marketing rights case, the family says.
Citing a mounting legal bill, Stephen Slesinger Inc., the family company founded by the literary agent who acquired U.S. marketing rights to the honey-loving bear from British author A.A. Milne decades ago, dismissed the legal firm of Jones Day on Friday, which had stepped into the case in June after another firm left.