Disney has managed to end a case against it by the successors to Winnie the Pooh. (Lawmeme previously covered the case here: it seems that one of our commenter's prediction has proven to be true.)
Walt Disney Co. scored a major legal victory today after a Superior Court judge dismissed the long-standing Winnie the Pooh royalties lawsuit against the firm after finding that the plaintiffs had illegally obtained company documents to prove their case.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles W. McCoy Jr. approved a Disney motion to throw out the 13-year-old case based on allegations that an unlicensed investigator broke into the company's offices about a decade ago and stole hundreds of pages of papers in an effort to bolster the case against Disney.
Attorneys for the Slesinger family, which sued Disney for allegedly shortchanging them on royalties from Winnie the Pooh products and programs, had argued that the documents had been legally obtained in trash bins found near the company's offices.