A&E sues firm over 'Lawman'

August 24, 2009 A new reality television show about the life of actor and martial arts expert Steven Seagal became the subject of a federal lawsuit filed on Monday in a dispute over who thought up the idea for the show. A&E Television Networks sued California-based Genuine Entertainment claiming that Genuine has wrongly asserted the idea for the reality show was stolen from Genuine by A&E after a series of meetings between the two parties. During several meetings in 2007, a representative for Genuine Entertainment had proposed ideas for a reality show involving Seagal.

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