Lawyers for Max’s “ The Pitt ” submitted a final briefing Monday in an attempt to defeat claims that the Emmy-winning show is a knockoff of “ER.” This marks the most recent development in a lawsuit brought by “ER” creator Michael Crichton’s estate against Warner Bros. in 2024. In a reply brief submitted Monday night, the defendants — who also include producer John Wells and actor Noah Wyle — describe the proposition that “The Pitt” is a “derivative work of the “ER” as “baseless.” “Plaintiff seeks to kill ‘The Pitt’ — and claims it should never have aired — based on a plainly incorrect misreading of a single phrase in a 1994 contract that gave Crichton approval rights over ‘derivative works’ of ‘ER,'” the reply brief reads.…