It pays to be observant. While walking around the Central West End last month, stylist Casey Ray peered into a trash bin behind the Chase Park Plaza and found scripts for "New Moon" and "Memoirs" - sequels to the vampire sensation "Twilight." (For those of you who don't have young teenagers at home, "Twilight" is a love story between a teenage girl and a vampire, pictured.) Ray began shopping the scripts around to the national tabloids, when someone from one of the papers told her how the deal would work. That's when Ray thought it might be a good idea to get some legal advice.

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Fantasy football providers have a First Amendment right to use the names and statistics of professional football players without having to pay a licensing fee. "It's a great decision for us. We got pretty much everything we wanted," said St. Louis lawyer Rudolph A. Telscher Jr., of Harness, Dickey & Pierce. Telscher had already scored big in the fantasy baseball case, C.B.C. Distribution & Marketing Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media L.P., before signing on with CBS Interactive Inc. to battle the National Football League Players Association Inc. and National Football League Players Inc.

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