United States Fifth Circuit

In a copyright dispute concerning a rap song, judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed over plaintiff's challenge that the district court erred in instructing the jury and in making several evidentiary rulings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2004
• Published 12/20/2004

Judges

• KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and SMITH and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Nathan T. Gisclair, Jr. (argued), Jeffrey Scott Loeb, Eugene Joseph Radcliff, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellant., Bruce Victor Schewe (argued), J. Michael Monahan, II, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Counter Claimants-Appellees., Thomas K. Potter, III (argued), Gregory D. Latham, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.