United States Eleventh Circuit

Injunction, ordering defendant satellite carrier to determine whether it was retransmitting plaintiff networks' programs to subscribers at households unable to receive network programming through conventional rooftop antennas, is reversed as to two of defendant's vendors, but is otherwise affirmed to the extent defendant engaged in a "willful or repeated" violation of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2006
• Published 05/23/2006

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and HILL, Circuit Judges, and MILLS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Katherine A. Fleet, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP, New York City, David M. Rogero, David M. Rogero, P.A., Miami, FL, Thomas P. Olson, A. Stephen Hut, Jr., E. Colin Rushing, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC, Reid L. Phillips, David Kushner, Wade H. Hargrove, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP, Raleigh, NC, for Plaintiffs., Charles C. Murphy, Jr., Vaughan & Murphy, Lawrence K. Nodine, Needle & Rosenberg, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Amici Curiae, Keenan and Comer.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cynthia A. Ricketts, Mark A. Nadeau, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P., Debora Lynn Verdier, Sanders & Parks, P.C., Phoenix, AZ, for Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.