Lynyrd Skynyrd's widows and survivors used a 1988 court order to block a film about the plane crash, and lost on appeal

A chartered plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd ran out of fuel and crashed in a Mississippi swamp. Singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backing singer Cassie Gaines died. In 1988 the survivors and the widows agreed a court-approved consent order controlling use of the band's name and history^†. In 2017 Cleopatra Films planned a movie, "Street Survivors," about the crash, with input from drummer Artimus Pyle, who had been on the plane. The heirs of Van Zant and Steve Gaines, joined by guitarist Gary Rossington, sued Cleopatra to stop it and to bar use of the Lynyrd Skynyrd name. They argued the film breached the 1988 order, which Pyle had signed^†. On 28 August 2017 a federal district judge in New York issued an injunction blocking the film. On 10 October 2018 a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit overturned the injunction, and the film was released^†.