Michael Crichton’s Widow & Warner Bros. Discovery Battle Over ‘The Pitt’ Sees Judge Offer “Soft” Punt On Breach Of Contract Suit Going Forward
deadline.comWarner Bros. Discovery’s efforts to pull the plug on a lawsuit that claims the Noah Wyle starring The Pitt is just more ER by any other name came up short today, softly.
In a hearing this morning downtown in LA Superior Court, Judge Wendy Change issued what she called a “soft tentative” denying WBD’s anti-SLAPP motion.
This leaves everything is a state of judicial purgatory, at least until something more solid comes from the bench. Today’s downtown LA session before Judge Chang was the first major courtroom face-off over the August 27 breach of contract suit filed by Crichton’s widow Sherri Crichton on behalf of John Michael Crichton Trust’s Roadrunner JMTC on claims that The Pitt is an unauthorized ER derivative.
As well as WBD, producer John Wells, star Noah Wyle and The Pitt showrunner R. Scott Gemmill have all been named as defendants in the matter.
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