O.J. Back in Court

By Stephen M. Silverman

08/10/1998 at 12:00 AM EDT

O.J. Simpson is heading back to court, this time to sue one of his former attorneys in an effort to halt an upcoming CBS miniseries about the ex-gridiron star's murder trial in the deaths of ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (Cast to star in the drama are Ving Rhames, Ron Silver and Christopher Plummer.) Variety reports that Simpson is demanding in Los Angeles Superior Court that allegedly privileged attorney-client information between him and his defense team not be used in the TV version of author Lawrence Schiller's "American Tragedy." Schiller and attorney Robert Kardashian, a member of what was called Simpson's legal "Dream Team," are named in Simpson's complaint. He claims that the two men already breached an agreement not to use the info in the Schiller book, which Simpson was to have reviewed before it was published. He was not given a chance to review it, nor did he sue at the time of the book's publication. Contacted by Variety last night, neither Schiller nor CBS had comments about the lawsuit.