From the Bookseller:
“J K Rowling has said that she intends to apply to the court to have a claim of plagiarism made against her by the estate of the late Adrian Jacobs dismissed on the grounds that it is without merit. She described the accusation “as not only unfounded but absurd” and said she was “saddened that yet another claim” has been made about the source of the Harry Potter books. Rowling was cited overnight alongside her UK publisher Bloomsbury in a lawsuit originally made public in June on behalf of the estate of Jacobs, who died in 1997. The claim alleges that Rowling borrowed ideas from the previously unknown book The Adventures of Willy the Wizard. Bloomsbury dismissed the allegations as “unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue” back in June.”
And more from the Associated Press