[Enchante]

"allowing Ms. Lyle to proceed with her case could put a strait-jacket on writers and dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV"

I say, A POX ON ALL OF THESE MORONS! On the one hand, Ms. Lyle should have no legal case at all, because no one but no one with even an ounce of brain matter should have thought that "writing" for a show of this kind is not going to involve all sorts of lurid banter and crude script ideas in the "writers' meetings".....she had to know what she was signing up for or else she is far too stupid to hold any paying job in this country..... otoh, only a moron would think that reining in the crude excesses of the Hollyweird/TV industry could "dilute the quality of what Americans see on movies and TV"

[68skylark]

Yeah, it would be nice if both parties could lose this case.

And after the lawyers collect all their fees, that's a real possibility.