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Suit Against Garcia Marquez Dismissed A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by Hollywood movie producer Richard Roth against Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez in which Roth argued that Garcia Marquez reneged on a contract for film rights to his novel “Love in the Time of Cholera.” U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real ruled that Roth had failed to prove that he had a binding contract with Garcia Marquez since no contract document was ever signed by the author.
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