Last year, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rebuffed the quest of John Steinbeck’s son and granddaughter to gain the publishing rights to his early works, awarding those rights instead to the estate of his widow and the Penguin Group publishing company.
Following that decision, Thomas Steinbeck, the author’s last surviving son, and Blake Smyle, his granddaughter, replaced Manatt, Phelps & Phillips with Theodore Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to petition the U.S. Supreme Court. They also hired Holland & Knight to replace Manatt in a separate but related action in New York federal court.
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