 In 1965, he also sued CBS in a New York court for televising a play based upon the Rasputin assassination.The claim was that some events were fictionalized, and under a New York State statute, his commercial rights in his story had been misappropriated.The last reported judicial opinion in the case was a ruling by New York's second highest court that the case could not be resolved upon briefs and affidavits but must go to trial.