Those of you who saw the Curb Your Enthusiasm recently where the orthodox Jewish woman jumped from a ski lift ... you did recognize this as the fact pattern from Friedman v. State of New York, 282 N.Y.S.2d 858 (1967), did you not.
If I were a screenwriter I'd get a Lexis account. Why think of new ideas? It's a gold mine. Unfortunately, this was not the end of Ms. Friedman's suffering, which went on to include:
On March 18, 1964, Miss Friedman testified that she "blacked out" and fell on a subway platform in New York City. She went to Dr. Emanuel Dubrow, her family pediatrician, who treated her for a slight laceration of the right labia majora.
See Friedman, 282 N.Y.S.2d at 867.
05 Dec 05
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If I remembered anything from a layman's version of Entertainment Law, it's that when you write screenplays based on cases, you'd have to be very precise and careful about which facts to change and which facts to keep. If you're not careful, you can easily get sued for defamation.
Posted by: CC at December 5, 2005 11:44 AM