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A Shawnee High School teacher who claims his Egyptian-based, time-travel ideas were stolen to make one of 1994's top-grossing movies recently won his fight to put the case before a jury.

U.S. District Judge Robin Cauthron ruled that the movie "Stargate" is substantially similar to a movie manuscript teacher Omar Zuhdi submitted to a film studio in 1984.

"We expected it," Zuhdi said Monday. "The evidence, to me, is so overwhelming that I couldn't see a ruling any other way."