Skip to main content
Find a Lawyer

all - Opinion Summaries

FILL IN AT LEAST ONE FIELD

Format is YYYYMMDD

Page 2 of 53 Showing Result 11 - 20 of 523
Description Date Docket #

ABS Entertainment Inc. v. CBS Corp.

United States Ninth Circuit
Copyright, Entertainment Law
In an amended opinion, reinstated musical recording owners' claims that radio broadcasters violated their state law copyrights in pre-1972 analog...
10/31/2018 16-55917

Three Expo Events, LLC v. City of Dallas, Texas

United States Fifth Circuit
Entertainment Law, Government Law, Constitutional Law
Held that a company had legal standing to challenge a city council resolution barring it from holding a controversial love- and sex-themed expo at the...
10/24/2018 17-10632

Ronnie Van Zant, Inc. v. Cleopatra Records, Inc.

United States Second Circuit
Entertainment Law
Vacated an injunction that prevented a movie producer from releasing a film about the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Held that a consent order settling a...
10/10/2018 17‐2849

Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin

United States Ninth Circuit
Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Granted a new trial in a copyright case involving a claim that Led Zeppelin copied key portions of its hit Stairway to Heaven from a song written by a...
09/28/2018 16-56057

American Federation of Musicians v. Paramount Pictures Corp.

United States Ninth Circuit
Labor & Employment Law, Entertainment Law
Reinstated a lawsuit alleging that a movie studio breached its collective-bargaining agreement with musicians who score motion pictures. The...
09/10/2018 16-55996

G and G Productions LLC v. Rusic

United States Ninth Circuit
Injury & Tort Law, Entertainment Law
Reinstated a lawsuit alleging that a woman stole an oil painting worth millions of dollars from her former husband, an Italian film producer. The...
08/29/2018 16-56107

Tanksley v. Daniels

United States Third Circuit
Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Affirmed the dismissal of a TV producer's complaint alleging that the popular Fox Television series Empire infringed his copyright in a television...
08/28/2018 17-2023

Serova v. Sony Music Entertainment

California Court of Appeal
Entertainment Law
Held that a fan of the singer Michael Jackson could not proceed with her proposed class action lawsuit against an entertainment company and others for...
08/28/2018 B280526

Cobbler Nevada, LLC v. Gonzales

United States Ninth Circuit
Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Affirmed the dismissal of a copyright infringement action brought against an individual who allegedly downloaded and distributed (i.e., pirated) a...
08/27/2018 17-35041

Scholz v. Goudreau

United States First Circuit
Entertainment Law, Trademark, Intellectual Property
Denied both parties' appeals in a trademark lawsuit between two members of the rock band Boston. A member of the multi-platinum band sued the band's...
08/21/2018 17-1264

Results 11 to 20 of 523

Copied to clipboard