Joan Celia Lee v. POW Entertainment, Inc.

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2 3 4 5 6 7 United States District Court 8 Central District of California 9 10 11 JOAN CELIA LEE, Case No. 2:19-cv-08353-ODW(FFMx) Plaintiff, v. ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR 14 POW! ENTERTAINMENT, INC., and SANCTIONS [10] 15 DOES 1 through 10, Defendants. I. INTRODUCTION Defendant POW! Entertainment, Inc., (“POW”) seeks to impose sanctions 19 against Plaintiff Joan Celia Lee (“JC”). (Mot. for Sanctions (“Mot.”), ECF No. 10.) 20 POW argues that JC’s amended complaint is not only frivolous, but also barred by the 21 doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel. For the reasons discussed below, the 22 Court DENIES POW’s Motion for Sanctions (“Motion”). (ECF No. 10.) II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND JC is the daughter and trustee for the estate of comic book author Stan Lee 25 (“Stan Lee”). (See First Am. Compl. (“FAC”) ¶ 1, ECF No. 18.) Stan Lee is 26 responsible for co-creating comic book characters such as Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron

28 1 After carefully considering the papers filed in support…