• In re NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation

    Publication Date: 2013-07-31
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    Date Filed: 2013-07-31
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Claudia A. Wilken, District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Gordon J. Quist, Senior District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve W. Berman (argued) and Erin K. Flory, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, Washington; Robert Carey and Leonard Aragon, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Phoenix, Arizona, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
    for defendant: Kelli L. Sager (argued), Alonzo Wickers IV, Karen A. Henry, Lisa J. Kohn and Anna R. Buono, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, California; Robert A. Van Nest, Steven A. Hirsch and R. James Slaughter, Keker & Van Nest, LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendant-Appellant. Douglas E. Mirell, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. Amy E. Margolin, Bien & Summers, San Francisco, California; Michael Rubin and P. Casey Pitts, Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae National Football League Players Association, Major League Baseball Players Association, National Basketball Players Association, National Hockey League Players' Association, and Major League Soccer Players Union. Thomas R. Carpenter and Purvi Patel, American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, AFL-CIO, New York, New York; Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and Danielle S. Van Lier, Screen Actors Guild, Inc., Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae Screen Actors Guild, Inc., American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, AFL-CIO, Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., Creative Property Rights Alliance, Fifty Six Hope Road Music Ltd., Luminary Group LLC, Thomas Steinbeck, and Gail Knight Steinbeck. Nathan Siegel and Lee Levine, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., Washington, District of Columbia, for Amici Curiae Advance Publications, A&E Television Networks, Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington, Association of American Publishers, Activision, California Newspaper Publishers Association, Capcom USA, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, E! Entertainment Television, ESPN, First Amendment Coalition, First Amendment Project, Freedom Communications, The Gannett Company, Gawker Media, Hybrid Films, ITV Studios, Konami Digital Entertainment, The Los Angeles Times, The McClatchy Company, Namco Bandai Games America, Original Productions, The Press­Enterprise Company, Radio Television Digital News Association, Sirens Media, Take Two Interactive Software, Thq, Viacom, The Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, and Wenner Media. Gregory L. Cutner and Robert J. Wierenga, Schiff Harden, LLP, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Rocky N. Unruh, Schiff Hardin, LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae National Collegiate Athletic Association.** ** The NCAA's motion to file its amicus brief is GRANTED.

    Case Number: No. 10-15387

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8156 IN RE: NCAA STUDENT-ATHLETE NAME & LIKENESS LICENSING LITIGATION, SAMUEL MICHAEL KELLER;

  • Hilburn v. Murata Electronics N.A., Inc.

    Publication Date: 1999-07-20
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    Date Filed: 1999-07-20
    Court: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    Judge: ANDERSON, Chief Judge, RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and COOK, Senior District Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: No. 98-9313

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. COOK, Senior District Judge: The Appellant, Linda Hilburn, appeals from the g

  • Glazer v. AA Premier Realty Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2003-12-08
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    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
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    U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York Judge Spatt On December 11, 2002, Laura Glazer ("Glazer" or the "plaintiff") commenced this action alleging that AA Pr

  • City of Auburn v. Qwest Corporation

    Publication Date: 2001-04-25
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    Date Filed: 2001-04-24
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Pamela Ann Rymer, Sidney R. Thomas, and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Lynch, et al.
    for defendant: Carol S. Arnold

    Case Number: Nos. 99-36173, 9

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. McKEOWN, Circuit Judge: This case presents issues of first impression concerning the relationship between vario

  • Titan Pharmaceuticals and Nutrition Inc. v. Medicine Shoppe International Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-21
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    Court: U.S. District Court for the Southern District
    Judge: Shira Scheindlin
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    U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Titan Pharmaceuticals and Nutrition Inc. v. Medicine Shoppe International Inc. I. INTRODUCTION Titan Pharma

  • Sinkler v. Midwest Property Management. Limited Partnership

    Publication Date: 2000-04-12
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    Date Filed: 2000-04-06
    Court: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    Judge: RIPPLE, KANNE and Diane P. WOOD, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: No. 99-1582

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Kanne, Circuit Judge. Staceen Sinkler suffersfrom a "specific phobia" involving the operationof an au

  • Sauer v. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration

    Publication Date: 2012-02-03
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    Date Filed: 2012-02-03
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: A. Howard Matz, District Judge, Presiding Before: John T. Noonan, Ronald M. Gould, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ismael A. Castro (argued), Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Julie Weng-Gutierrez (argued), Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for plaintiff, appellant, and cross-appellee Anthony P. Sauer, Director of the California Department of Rehabilitation.
    for defendant: Jeffrica J. Lee (argued), DOJ, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee and cross-appellant United States Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration. George Langendorf, Esq. (argued), Arnold & Porter LLP, San Francisco, California, for intervenor-appellee David Zelickson

    Case Number: No. 10-55642, No. 10-55877

    Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 1417 ANTHONY P. SAUER, Director of the California Department of Rehabilitation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. p

  • Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. v. Bichel

    Publication Date: 2010-02-01
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    Date Filed: 2010-01-27
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Lipez, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 08-2199

    Before Lipez and Howard, Circuit Judges, and Woodcock, District Judge.*fn1As one observer has noted, this case, which raises important and unsettled legal issues u

  • Fragin v. Mezei, 09 Civ. 10287 (AJN)

    Publication Date: 2012-08-28
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Alison J. Nathan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 09 Civ. 10287 (AJN)

    Cite as: Fragin v. Mezei, 09 Civ. 10287 (AJN), NYLJ 1202569262704, at *1 (SDNY, Decided August 22, 2012)District Judge Alison J. Na

  • Midwest Grain Products of Illinois, Inc. v. Productization, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Date Filed: 2000-10-03
    Court: 7th Cir.
    Judge: Coffey, Rovner, and Diane P. Wood, Circuit Judges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: Nos. 99-2958 and

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. Diane P. Wood, Circuit Judge. This case presents a classic contract dispute: A orders a product from B, and B turns t