LEGAL FILE

Moving On: A court hearing Tuesday cleared the way for Alain Bernheim and writer Art Buchwald’s three-year-old case against Paramount Pictures--over conception of the 1988 hit film “Coming to America”--to enter the damages phase on March 2. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Harvey A. Schneider granted Paramount’s motions to limit the kinds of evidence that will be admissible. He will not hear arguments about what a producer credit on the movie might have meant to Bernheim’s future earnings, and is interested only in the fair market value of Bernheim’s services, but he will listen to testimony to determine the relative value of Buchwald’s contribution to the film.