From the New Jersey Law Journal:
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Quote:
Just four days before the Academy Awards, Oscar-nominated movie "The Hurt Locker" is the basis of a lawsuit from an Army sergeant who claims the film's main character is based on him, but he hasn't been offered a dime for his exploits. In a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed March 3 in federal court in New Jersey, Master Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver alleges that Hollywood producers cheated him out of a share of the profits, even though the film is largely about him. He is suing for a cut of the film's profits and for his name to be added to the credits. Geoffrey Fieger, one-time lawyer to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is representing Sarver. "The movie disingenuously claims that it's a fictional account, which is absurd," said Fieger of Southfield, Mich.'s Fieger Fieger Kenney Johnson & Giroux. "The only fiction here is that they claim that it's fiction."It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
