A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has tossed out the Slesinger family's 13-year suit against the Walt Disney Company, punishing the plaintiffs for hiring a private investigator who reportedly stole thousands of documents from Disney's trash bins and then lying about having possession of the documents. The long running case involves Disney's most lucrative character, Winnie the Pooh, which the Slesinger family had licensed to Disney in the 1960s. The Slesinger family has been represented by 10 different attorneys, most recently by Johnny Cochran (see 'OJ Attorneys in Pooh Fight'), and undaunted by the judge's dismissal, the family has announced that they will appeal.
Judge Flings Pooh Case Out With the Trash
Posted by ICv2 on March 29, 2004 @ 11:00 pm CT

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