Novelist's 'Empire' Copyright Suit Gets Trimmed

By Dorothy Atkins ( March 31, 2017, 2:40 PM EDT) -- A Virginia federal judge on Friday dismissed two people and a criminal attorney from a suit brought by a Virginia-based author who says the television show "Empire" was lifted from his 2007 novel, ruling that the attorney's alleged "entertainment connections" aren't enough to establish the court's jurisdiction over the matter....

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