The two court cases stemming from a planned Broadway theatrical adaptation of Harper Lee’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, filed in two separate jurisdictions, will proceed in the Southern District of New York. A Federal court judge in Alabama ruled Monday that Tonja Carter’s original suit against producer Scott Rudin should transfer to the Southern District of New York, where Rudin’s company, Rudinplay Inc., had filed a countersuit against the Harper Lee Estate. Judge William H. Steele’s 19-page ruling denied Rudinplay’s motion to dismiss on the grounds that jurisdiction in Alabama did not apply.The producer “well knew that it was forming […]
