MOVIES - Aug. 12, 1991

Contracts in the Time of Lawsuits: Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez did not break a contract when negotiations failed over movie rights to his novel “Love in the Time of Cholera,” a federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled. Richard Roth, a movie producer, sued the best-selling Latin American author claiming that Marquez reneged on an agreement over movie rights. However, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that no binding agreement existed because Marquez had never signed a contract.