US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Case Name:WENDT V HOST INTERNATIONAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS GEORGE WENDT, an individual; JOHN RATZENBERGER, an individual, No. 96-55243HOST INTERNATIONAL, INC., aDelaware corporation, D.C. No.Defendant-Appellee, CV-93-00142-Rand ORDERPARAMOUNT PICTURES,CORPORATION, a Delawarecorporation,Defendant-Intervenor.Filed December 28, 1999Before: Betty B. Fletcher and Stephen S. Trott,Circuit Judges, and Bruce S. Jenkins,1 District Judge.Order; Dissent by Judge Kozinski_________________________________________________________________ORDERThe panel has voted to deny the petition for rehearing.Judge Trott voted to reject the petition for rehearing en bancand Judges B. Fletcher and Jenkins so recommend.The full court was advised of the petition for rehearing en_________________________________________________________________1 Honorable Bruce S. Jenkins, Senior United States District Judge for theDistrict of Utah, sitting by designation. 14901banc. An active Judge requested a vote on whether to rehearthe matter en banc. The matter failed to receive a majority ofthe votes in favor of en banc consideration. Fed. R. App. P.35.The petition for rehearing is denied and the petition forrehearing en banc is rejected._________________________________________________________________KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge, with whom Judges KLEINFELDand TASHIMA join, dissenting from the order rejecting thesuggestion for rehearing en banc:Robots again. In White v. Samsung Elecs. Am., Inc., 971F.2d 1395, 1399 (9th Cir. 1992), we held that the right of pub-licity extends not just to the name, likeness, voice and signa-ture of a famous person, but to anything at all that evokes thatperson's identity. The plaintiff there was Vanna Whit...
