Appellant, Gary Lund, contends that the City of Fall River s zoning ordinances violate the First Amendment by preventing him from opening an adult entertainment establishment on land zoned industrial without providing an adequate opportunity elsewhere. The district court rejected his claim, and we...   MORE>>

Defendants-Appellants, who collectively operated as a video game publisher, entered into a contract with Plaintiff-Appellee, a video game developer, to produce and market a new video game. When their business relationship deteriorated, the parties proceeded with arbitration, and the arbitrator award...   MORE>>

Thomas Gianfrancesco, the former proprietor of a now-defunct bar and restaurant in Wrentham, Massachusetts, sued the Town of Wrentham and a number of town officials, claiming federal civil rights violations and unfair trade practices. He alleges that the defendants maliciously imposed excessive regu...   MORE>>

Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Nathan, J.) denying Plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction barring Defendant Aereo from transmitting recorded broadcast television programs to its subscribers while the programs are airing on b...   MORE>>

This case is yet another concerning the application of established intellectual property concepts to new technologies. See, e.g., UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Shelter Capital Partners, LLC, F.3d (9th Cir. 2013); Perfect 10, Inc. v. Visa Int l Serv. Ass n, 494 F.3d 788 (9th Cir. 2007); Viacom ...   MORE>>

Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited and Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (collectively, Aristocrat ) and International Game Technology and IGT (collectively, IGT ) compete in the casino gaming machine industry. In 2006, Aristocrat brought the current action against IGT in the Northe...   MORE>>

This is a copyright infringement suit over a seven-second clip of Ed Sullivan s introduction of the Four Seasons on The Ed Sullivan Show. Appellees Dodger Productions, Inc. and Dodger Theatricals, Ltd. (collectively Dodger ) used the clip in their musical about the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys, ...   MORE>>

Plaintiffs/Appellants The Indigo Room, Inc. ( the Indigo Room ), Raimond Aulen, and Dylan Jones (collectively Appellants ), appeal the district court s denial of their motion for a preliminary injunction against Defendants/Appellees City of Fort Myers ( the City ), Fort Myers Police C...   MORE>>

While police were preparing to execute a warrant to search a basement apartment for a handgun, detectives conducting surveillance in an unmarked car outside the apartment saw two men―later identified as petitioner Chunon Bailey and Bryant Middleton―leave the gated area above the apartmen...   MORE>>

Circuit Judge. 600 Marshall Entertainment Concepts, LLC ( 600 Marshall ) is a nightclub in Memphis, Tennessee. It is located in a zoning district where adult entertainment has been prohibited since 1993. Although already allowed to present most forms of adult entertainment under a grandfather cl...   MORE>>