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Volume 11, Number 1, June 1989


       Legal Affairs

     3 EC 1992 and its Potential Effects on the United
       States Entertainment Industry,
       by Susan W. Liebeler and Arthur S. Lowry

       Recent Cases

    10 U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of racketeering
       statutes in civil actions against owners of adult
       bookstores, but rules that pretrial seizure of
       expressive material is unconstitutional

    12 Public opinion survey and expert testimony
       concerning obscenity of charged materials were
f-\'   properly excluded from trial of bookstore owners
       on racketeering charges

    12 Contract dispute involving screenplay based on the
       life of the late singer Harry Chapin is ordered to
       trial

    13 Shubert Organization's advance ticket sale activities
       for Phantom of the Opera did not violate antitrust
       laws

    13 Syufy Enterprises prevails in government antitrust
       action involving motion picture exhibition in Las
       Vegas

    14 Film booking agent is acquitted of conspiracy to
       engage in anticompetitive product-split in Altoona,
       Pennsylvania

    14 Dismissal of libel suit against authors and publisher
       of Elvis Presley; biography is affirmed, because
       portrayal of plaintiff was not defamatory

    14 Film producer properly obtained default judgment
       against financier on breach of contract claim arising
       from third party's failure to return deposit, but
       court remands RICO claim

    15 Financier may proceed with legal malpractice action
       based on default judgment obtained by film
       producer, rules Illinois appellate court

    15 Attorney for convicted killer retains royalties
       received under assignment of book publishing
       contract, because New Jersey's Son of Sam law


does not apply retroactively


16 Heritage Broadcasting wins specific performance of
    contract for its purchase of two Michigan television
    stations

16 Football player's state claim for wages is
    preempted by federal labor law governing
    arbitration award obtained by player under
    collective bargaining agreement

17 Forum sports arena did not breach any duty to
    basketball fan injured while climbing fence, rules
    California appellate court

17 Arizona trial court must find whether security
   company breached duty to minor patron of baseball
   stadium who was injured after drinking at game

18 Briefly Noted: Copyright Infringement/Music,
    Broadcast License, Torts/Baseball Spectator Injury,
    and Torts/Photographer Injury cases

    In the News

19 Los Angeles radio station KABC obtains injunction
   barring KFI from using Talk Radio slogan in
   conjunction with KFI's call letters

19 Recording Industry Association anti-piracy update

19 Virginia increases penalties for piracy of sound
   recordings

19 Unauthorized importer of compact discs agrees to
   pay $125,000 to record companies to settle lawsuit,
   and to stop importing and distributing activities

20 Federal Communications Commission repeals
   network affiliation rule and begins inquiry on
   licensee transfer of control

20 Canadian record companies will increase royalty
   payments to songwriters and music publishers

   Departments

21 Educational Programs Calendar

22 In the Law Reviews


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