With a small notice in the St. Louis Post Dispatch one of the epic lawsuits of our time had its final, anti-climactic chapter:
After seeing his first award of $24.5 million tossed out, and a subsequent one of $15 million upheld, former St. Louis Blues enforcer Tony Twist has settled for $5 million in a suit over his depiction in a comic strip.
The settlement between Twist and insurance companies for Todd McFarlane Productions Inc. was approved in bankruptcy court in Arizona. The law firm of Blitz Bardgett & Deutsch represented Twist.
Twist sued McFarlane over the latter’s use of a character named “Tony Twist” as a villain in SPAWN. Although some judges along the way ruled that there was little chance any reasonable person would mistake the comics character for the real life person, hockey-loving McFarlane’s admission that he had indeed based the character on Twist seemed persuasive against himself.
I hear crickets.
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Coat
Hey, who’s the guy settling up with Tony Twist? Didn’t he used to draw funny books or something?
“Our long national nightmare is over.”
It’s pretty sad that this dude sued just because a name was used….dude is pretty lame and desparate for $$$$
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