 On 3 April 1940 in U. S. Federal Court in Los Angeles, Federal Judge  Henry W. Goddard, after trial lasting several weeks, ordered  dismissal of the infringement suit of William Jordan Rapp and Lowell  Brentano against Harold Lloyd and Harold Lloyd Corp. Plaintiffs had  charged plagiarism of their work, "Greek to You," in the film  "Professor Beware." Judge Goddard ruled that the film was adapted  from a play, "The Road to Jericho," and said, "I think it is plain  that defendants have not copied plaintiffs work." Phillips and  Nizer were attorneys for the defendants.