The case against Spielberg has been halted. For now. Barbara Chase-Riboud had alleged that Amistad had been plagarised from her book Echo of Lions. The judge ordered that the issues should go to a copyright-infringement trial early next year. For a full update see our Amistad feature in movietrack.
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