United States Fourth Circuit

The plain language of 18 U.S.C. section 2511 and 18 U.S.C. section 2520 allows a television broadcast company to maintain a civil action against an individual who intercepts encrypted satellite transmissions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/13/2005
• Published 04/13/2005

Judges

• Before WIDENER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Howard Robert Rubin, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.   ON BRIEF:Ray Martin Kline, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.  Jacqueline Sadker, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.