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Polanski v. Oscar

Fighting fugitive film director Roman Polanski’s legal efforts for reinstatement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/PolanskiAMPAS-answer.pdf"><strong>told a judge</strong></a> Polanski got an opportunity to fight his expulsion from the academy – which still voted to expel him afterward by a two-thirds supermajority.

LOS ANGELES – Fighting fugitive film director Roman Polanski’s legal efforts for reinstatement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences told a judge Polanski got an opportunity to fight his expulsion from the academy – which still voted to expel him afterward by a two-thirds supermajority.

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