Court subpeonas Disney and Warner Brothers characters

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Tue Dec 4, 2007 — by Glenn Hauman

Court subpeonas Disney and Warner Brothers characters

Some Mickey Mouse court this is...

Sufferin' succotash. From the AP:

ROME -- Tweety may get a chance to take the witness stand and sing like a canary.

An Italian court ordered the animated bird, along with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and his girlfriend Daisy, to testify in a counterfeiting case.

In what lawyers believe was a clerical error worthy of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a court in Naples sent a summons to the characters ordering them to appear Friday in a trial in the southern Italian city, officials said.

The court summons cites Titti, Paperino, Paperina, Topolino -- the Italian names for the characters -- as damaged parties in the criminal trial of a Chinese man accused of counterfeiting products of Disney and Warner Bros.

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mike weber (12:32 AM on Wed Dec 5, 2007)

I've seen a bona-fide Italian Pit Stop.

Wonder what an Italian Jury Trial is like.

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