Lawsuit
In September 2006, writer Staci Robinson filed a $40 million lawsuit against the CW, CBS, Warner Brothers, and Grammnet Productions for copyright infringement. Robinson claimed that she applied for a job as writer's assistant in 2001 with series creator and executive producer, Mara Brock Akil, and then subsequently, sent her novel, Interceptions, to Akil. "Interceptions" is a novel about a woman that decides to put her professional goal of becoming a lawyer on hold to follow her boyfriend as he pursue a career as a professional football player. After receiving the novel, Robinson was interviewed for the job but later declined the position. Robinson alleged that Akil and a CW screenwriter stole the idea from her novel to create the series. The suit was settled out of court under a non-disclosure agreement in September 2007.
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