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A lawsuit against Twilight author Stephanie Meyer has been dismissed by a California court on Friday morning.
Jordan Scott claimed in August that Meyer lifted storylines from her 2006 book The Nocturne and included them in Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the teen vampire saga.
According to MTV News , Scott argued that purported similarities between the two books could not be a coincidence.
"This isn't about vampires or vampire lore; it's about the events in the book," said the author, whose book was never widely distributed to traditional bookstores.
"From the main characters getting married and the description of the ceremonies, the feelings the characters are going through ... these are not things you typically see in the vampire genre."
However, US District Court Judge Wright ruled the two books have little in common and their "characters in the two works are vastly different." He dismissed Scott's claim.
He goes on to state that Scott "twice manipulated aspects of the subject works in order to create the appearance of similarity."
