United States Ninth Circuit

A Writer's Guild of America investigation and determination that a claimant was not a participating-writer of a program, was a non-judicial proceeding which was too informal to have a preclusive effect on a claim for breach of contract for production credits.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2002
• Decided 06/03/2002
• Published 06/03/2002

Judges

• Before REINHARDT and GRABER, Circuit Judges, and HUNT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian A. Rishwain,Johnson & Rishwain LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• George R. Hedges, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.