United States Second Circuit

Denial of motion for new trial, in case finding plaintiffs had assigned copyrights to seven dances to defendant center, is affirmed over claim that district court abused its discretion in: 1) denying plaintiffs' motion for a new trial; 2) excluding "newly discovered" evidence offered during the trial on remand; and 3) finding that the seven dances were assigned to the center.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/11/2006
• Published 07/12/2006

Judges

• LOUIS F. OBERDORFER, District Judge., Before JACOBS and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges;  OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Peter B. Schalk, Judd Burstein, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants., Katherine B. Forrest, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, (Joanne M. Gentile, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Counterclaimants-Appellees.