In All Fairness........

Things that are so surreal that they are hard to fathom have always been of great interest to me. So when TwiLex listed among their many entries the story of Casey Ray suing Summit, I just had to investigate. Thank you TwiLex for this, because it is pretty humorous in a really sick, money grubbing sort of way.

Seems that Ray and Summit entered into an agreement over the movie scripts found in a trash bin at a St. Louis motel where the cast of "Up in the Air" had been staying. One script was Kendrick's watermarked script of "New Moon". The other was titled "Memoirs" and as we all know it was the script for "Remember Me". Kendrick's script for "New Moon" was titled "Un-something Sports Script". Obviously an attempt by Summit to make a fake name so unappetizing that no one would venture past the title page. However, I'm figuring that Ray, who has no aversion to dumpster diving and freely admits it, knew exactly what she had simply because Kendrick's name was on it. I would have.

So Ray, in an agreement with Summit, returns the scripts to Summit in exchange for invitations for 2 to the "New Moon" and "Remember Me" premieres plus invitations to the after premiere parties. She took her niece to the "New Moon" premiere, but because of the cost of airfare plus living arrangements, she decided she couldn't afford the second premiere and thus put the invitations to the "Remember Me" premiere and after party up for grabs on ebay. When Summit caught wind of this, spoil sports that they are, they informed her that she couldn't do that. Her attorney countered that, yes she could as no restrictions were given in the original agreement. So Summit comes back that they aren't sending the little package, that she and only she will be able to retrieve it at the "will call" window in New York with the appropriate identification of course. So Ray and her attorney decide to sue Summit for what they promised. If you follow this link, you can read the lawsuit plus the exhibits attached to it.
http://assets.bizjournals.com/cms_media/stlouis/newmoonsuit.pdf

Now, I for one would love to see Summit in a Hulk Hogan headlock, however, in reading the original agreement I'd have to say with an untrained eye, that Summit actually has grounds. The part that makes me think so is this: "Summit shall issue to Ray an invitation to Ray and not less than one guest............"(It's number 7 of Exhibit A). And no where does it say she can do as she damn well pleases with her payment for giving the stuff back. Summit also never said they would make it an all expense paid trip. She was grousing about what her out of pocket expenses were, not that she was gypped. So I figure, in an attempt to recoup the first trip expenses and probably receive a little pocket money, she decided to sell them on ebay.

I have an idea that she already took payment for the tickets and party pass and that's what has caused all of this. I have no idea what the final bid was because I'm an ebay illiterate and wouldn't know where to start looking for it. However, I'd bet that it probably isn't there any longer anyway. And I'd bet she got a pretty penny for it as well. So now, she is screwed. No tickets, no after party pass, no autographed scripts to be returned and certified as authentic, which she probably could have sold on ebay for a tidy price. So instead of getting one up on Summit they have gotten one up on Ray. Just doesn't pay to be greedy.

Somehow though, unless justice moves quicker in Missouri than it does anywhere else in the United States, it will all be for naught anyway since the tickets were suppose to be delivered to her attorney 10 days before the premiere which is in just a few days. So what if Summit loses?

The lingering question and the one that really has me scratching my head: Why would Kendrick have had an unwatermarked copy of "Memoirs" ?????