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 The Associated Press reports that the end is near for a bitter legal dispute between the three surviving
members of The Doors now that the California Supreme Court has refused
to take up their case.
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby
Krieger are on the hook for more than $5 million after they were found
by lower courts to have improperly invoked The Doors' name and images
during a 2003 concert tour. After the high court declined to hear their
appeal on Aug. 13, they'll have to pay up to drummer John Densmore, the
parents of the deceased lead singer Jim Morrison and the parents of
Morrison's deceased wife, Pamela Courson, who died in 1974.
The
case goes back to 2002, when Densmore declined an offer from the other
two to go on a concert tour as The Doors. Densmore said he didn't
object to Manzarek and Krieger touring and singing The Doors' songs, as
long as they didn't call themselves The Doors, use the group's
distinctive logo or any other Morrison-era imagery.
"You
can't call yourselves The Doors because you can't have The Doors
without Jim Morrison," Densmore's attorney S. Jerome Mandel said.
Densmore
and the parents sued Manzarek and Krieger in 2003 after the two began
touring the country with Ian Astbury, former lead singer of The Cult,
and calling themselves The Doors of the 21st Century.
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