JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ? Lawyers for Kathryn Stockett want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the author of "The Help" of basing a character on a real-life maid who works for Stockett's brother.
A hearing is scheduled next week in the lawsuit filed by a Mississippi woman who claims she was the basis for the maid in the book that has been made into a movie that opens Wednesday.
It's based on relationships between white families and their African-American maids in the segregated South of the 1960s.
A driving character in the novel is a woman named Aibileen. A real-life woman named Ablene Cooper says she worked as a maid for Stockett's brother. She claims in the lawsuit that Stockett used her name and likeness without permission.
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