LEGAL FILE

Suit Dismissal Denied: A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a motion by lawyers for “Superman” star Christopher Reeve to dismiss a suit filed by two screenwriters--Barry Taff and Kenneth Stoller--claiming that Reeve used their treatment as the basis for “Superman IV” and later claimed it as his own creation. Also named in the suit are several Warner Bros. executives. and Canon Film Group. The judge based his decision partly on new evidence presented in the 3-year-old case in which John Schulman, general counsel for Warner Bros., stated in a deposition that he had discussed the possibility that the script was based on the writers’ treatment with two Warner executives in January, 1986.