· 9/30/1998
This is Me, Inc. v. Elizabeth Taylor, Zev Bufman, and Zev Bufman Entertainment, Inc.
Citations
- 157 F.3d 139
- 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 24416
- 1998 WL 667989
How courts have described this case
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- explaining that under New York law “all writings which form part of a single transaction and are designed to effectuate the same purpose [must] be read together” (internal quotation marks omitted)
- approving jury instruction that read, “[A]ll writings which form part of a single transaction and are designed to effectuate the same purpose [must] be read together_”
- “Under New York law, all writings forming part of a single transaction are to be read together.”
- “Under New York law, all writings forming part of a single transaction are to be read together.” (collecting cases)
- documents could be construed as part of the same transaction where they had singular purpose of securing actress Cicely Tyson’s appearance in a Broadway play
- “As long as there is 19 some evidence based upon which the jury could have held [the defendants] 20 individually liable, we must reinstate the verdict.”
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Judges: Jacobs, Leval, Mishler
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