Updated, 12:42 Pm: Olivia de Havilland is hitting back at FX’s attempts to keep the Gone with the Wind actress’ lawsuit over her depiction in Feud: Bette and Joan from being heard before the Supreme Court.
“In its Opposition, FX claims that Miss de Havilland’s case is not ‘cert-worthy,’” her lawyer Suzelle Smith said. “This is another way of saying FX does not want the U.S. Supreme Court to take a good look at the Court of Appeal Opinion, written by a state justice with an extremist view that the First Amendment should protect knowing falsehoods about living persons in profitable docudramas. Like the Colorado baker whose First Amendment rights allowed him to refuse to design a cake that expressed a message he did not believe, Miss de Havilland has a right to prevent false words being put into her mouth in a docudrama, just as with any other form of publication.
“In its Opposition, FX claims that Miss de Havilland’s case is not ‘cert-worthy,’” her lawyer Suzelle Smith said. “This is another way of saying FX does not want the U.S. Supreme Court to take a good look at the Court of Appeal Opinion, written by a state justice with an extremist view that the First Amendment should protect knowing falsehoods about living persons in profitable docudramas. Like the Colorado baker whose First Amendment rights allowed him to refuse to design a cake that expressed a message he did not believe, Miss de Havilland has a right to prevent false words being put into her mouth in a docudrama, just as with any other form of publication.
- 11/16/2018
- by Erik Pedersen and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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