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Ultramercial, LLC v. Hulu, LLC

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Media Law
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court dismissing plaintiffs' infringement claims, related to a patent for a method for distributing...

Nolan v. CN8

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Contracts, Entertainment Law, Labor & Employment Law, Media Law
In an appeal from the grant of summary judgment against plaintiff in his wrongful termination action alleging speech-motivated retaliation, Mass. Gen....

Sonoma County Employees Retirement Assn. v. Superior Court (The Press Democrat)

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Media Law
In a petition for a writ of mandate to overturn the trial court's order compelling petitioner to disclose the names of all persons receiving county...

Behrend v. Comcast Corp.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Media Law
A class action antitrust suit alleging cable companies' violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act in regard to the provision of cable...

In re Literary Works in Elect. Databases Copyright Litig.

Contracts, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law, Civil Procedure, Class Actions
In a consolidated class-action dispute involving a complaint for copyright infringements arising from defendant-publishers' unauthorized electronic...

Prometheus Radio Project v. Federal Communications Commission

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law, Media Law, Remedies
In a petition for review of an order of the FCC overhauling its newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rule and granting permanent waivers of the rule to...

Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC

Contracts, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law, Civil Procedure
In an action brought by a photographer alleging violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. section 1201(a)(1)(A), copyright...

TMTV, Corp. v. Logrono

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
In a copyright infringement action concerning two sitcoms on Puerto Rican television, summary judgment in favor of plaintiff with award reduction is...

Lacey v. Maricopa County

Civil Rights, Government Law, Civil Procedure, Media Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a Section 1983 action arising from the controversial late-night arrests of two Phoenix newspaper executives for their publication of an article...

Brantley v. NBC Universal, Inc.

Media Law, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Entertainment Law, Civil Procedure
In a class-action for damages and an injunction to compel programmers and distributors of television programming to sell cable channels separately,...