royalties based on the value of "gross receipts" and merchandising sales. In 2002, the trial court in the case ruled that these only referred to actual cash receipts Disney collected and denied Wolf's claim. In its January 2004 ruling, the California Court of Appeals disagreed, finding that Wolf's expert testimony regarding the customary use of "gross receipts" in the entertainment business could support a broader reading of the term. The ruling vacated the trial court's order in favor of Disney and remanded the case for further proceedings. In a March 2005 hearing, Wolf estimated he was owed $7 million. Disney's attorneys not only disputed the claim, but also said Wolf actually owed Disney $500,000–$1 million because of an accounting error discovered in preparing for the lawsuit. Wolf won the decision in July 2005, receiving between $180,000 and $400,000 in damages. In February 2013, Wolf announced that he and Erik Von Wodtke were working on a development proposal for a prequel film to Who Framed Roger Rabbit serving as a remake of the Disney buddy comedy The Stooge, starring Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit in place of the title characters, and depicting how Roger met his future wife Jessica in a subplot. Wolf stated the film was wending its way through Disney. Selected bibliography Killerbowl (September 26, 1975) () A Generation Removed (May 27, 1977) () The Resurrectionist (July 20, 1979) () Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (June 6, 1981) () Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? (July 30, 1991) () Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3 (December 1, 2006) () Space Vulture (March 4, 2008) () Penumbra eMag Vol 1 Issue 10 (July 2012) (ISSN 2163-4092) The Late Great Show! (October 5, 2012) () Typical Day (December 7, 2012) () Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? (November 29, 2013) () Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business (May 4, 2022) References Further reading External links Official Site Space Vulture 1941 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American science fiction writers People from Earlville, Illinois Writers from Brookline, Massachusetts Novelists from Illinois Novelists from Massachusetts Gies College of Business alumni American humorists United States Air Force personnel of the Vietnam War American Vietnam War pilots Recipients of the Air Medal United States Air Force officers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Military personnel from Illinois