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Harper Lee Lawsuit Is Dismissed
New York Times ^ | JUNE 5, 2014 | Robin Pogrebin and Jennifer Schuessler

Posted on 06/06/2014 12:15:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A federal judge has ended the lawsuit brought by Harper Lee against the Monroe County Heritage Museum, The Associated Press reported — two weeks after it was reinstated. The suit had alleged that the Alabama museum had profited from unauthorized use of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

United States District Judge William H. Steele dismissed the case on Thursday in a one-sentence order after lawyers for Ms. Lee and for the museum filed a joint motion seeking to end the suit. The order did not reveal any settlement terms, but the judge said that both Ms. Lee and the museum will have to pay their own legal costs and attorney fees, which were unspecified.

(Excerpt) Read more at artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: booradley; harperlee; tokillamockingbird
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1 posted on 06/06/2014 12:15:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

Still no resolution to who killed the mockingbird!


2 posted on 06/06/2014 12:16:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It was Boo Radley.................


3 posted on 06/06/2014 12:32:15 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, that's who you think it is................

4 posted on 06/06/2014 12:33:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Red Badger
It was Boo Radley.................

I thought he killed the lonesome dove.

5 posted on 06/06/2014 12:34:47 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Starstruck

He killed Bob Ewell...................To save Scout Finch................


6 posted on 06/06/2014 12:36:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Red Badger

Great actor. The guy could play any part.


7 posted on 06/06/2014 12:37:22 PM PDT by day10 (Integrity has no need of rules.)
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To: nickcarraway
Ms. Lee’s original lawsuit, filed in 2013, accused Monroeville, Ala., of trying to “capitalize upon the fame” of the novel by establishing a museum in its courthouse, where a pivotal scene in the novel was set, and that the museum was selling unauthorized merchandise referring to the book. (The museum’s former Web address was tokillamockingbird.com.)

Copyright infringement in selling merchandise is one thing ... but establishing a museum in a site made famous by a book? That seems a stretch.

8 posted on 06/06/2014 12:37:24 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: nickcarraway
Still no resolution to who killed the mockingbird!

Group rejection of the truth to the point of the destruction of justice itself, through serial expressions of personal cowardice, killed the mockingbird.

It's profound because of its ubiquity throughout human history, despite warnings - even from God Himself - of the catastrophe it inevitably brings.

"What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ... And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's, and if you cut them down – and you're just the man to do it – do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

- Thomas Moore in A Man for All Seasons

9 posted on 06/06/2014 12:39:14 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: day10; Red Badger; Starstruck

He loves the smell of napalm in the morning.


10 posted on 06/06/2014 12:46:51 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: day10

He was very young then, and although it was not a speaking part, or very little IIRC, it was a main central character to the story line............


11 posted on 06/06/2014 12:47:03 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: TheOldLady

For me, it’s DIESEL..................


12 posted on 06/06/2014 12:48:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
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To: Red Badger

I really love To Kill A Mockingbird. I wanted Atticus to be my dad when I was growing up!


13 posted on 06/06/2014 12:51:52 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: nickcarraway

We here at FRee Republic lived through a real-life “To Kill a Mockingbird” in real time back in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case


14 posted on 06/06/2014 12:54:36 PM PDT by abb
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To: Starstruck
I thought he killed the lonesome dove.

Cooked it on an Open Range.

15 posted on 06/06/2014 12:57:01 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: abb
We here at FRee Republic lived through a real-life “To Kill a Mockingbird” in real time back in 2006.

I think that's wrong to say. My brother knew that team. We at FR just read about it. They lived it.

16 posted on 06/06/2014 12:58:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: freepertoo
I wanted Atticus to be my dad when I was growing up!

Atticus! Atticus!

17 posted on 06/06/2014 12:59:52 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, no. We lived it. This site was early on, the first to figure out that it was an attempted lynching. We discovered first the name of the prostitute who made the false accusation. There’s still a group of us from around the country who stay plugged into the case and other related issues.

http://s1.zetaboards.com/Liestoppers_meeting/index/


18 posted on 06/06/2014 1:03:01 PM PDT by abb
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To: abb

That’s all well and good, but your future was not on the line.


19 posted on 06/06/2014 1:06:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Starstruck
I thought he killed the lonesome dove.

Cooked it on an Open Range.

While he was hunting for Second Hand Lions.

20 posted on 06/06/2014 1:09:33 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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