[Update] Below is the gold collection of Judge Sotomayor copyright decisions. Please let me know if you come across a case that I’m missing. After I removed the false positives, there were fewer cases than the seventy-five I originally estimated. Apparently, the overzealous seventy-five number won the site a link from law.com, so the lesson to learn from all of this is overestimate by a lot and you’ll get hits. (I’ll post Judge Sotomayor’s six hundred and fifty-two Second Amendment cases next week.)
- Smith v. The Educ. People, Inc., 2008 WL 749564 (2d. Cir. 2008) (summary order)
- Jorgensen v. Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 310 Fed.Appx. 419 (2d. Cir. 2008) (summary order)
- Major League Baseball v. Salvino, 542 F.3d 290 (2d. Cir. 2008) (Sotomayor concurring)
- Smith v. The Educ. People, Inc., 2008 WL 749564 (2d Cir. 2008) (summary order)
- Hudson v. Universal Studios Inc., 235 Fed.Appx. 788 (2d. Cir. 2007) (summary order)
- Boone v. Jackson, 206 Fed.Appx. 30 (2d. Cir. 2007) (summary order)
- Dow Jones & Company, Inc. v. International Securities Exchange, Inc., 451 F.3d 295 (2d. Cir. 2006) (Leval writing)
- U.S. v. Broadcast Music, Inc., 426 F.3d 91 (2d. Cir. 2005) (Parker writing)
- Playtex Products, Inc. v. Georgia-Pacific Corp., 390 F.3d 158 (2d. Cir. 2004) (Lanham Act) (Sotomayor writing)
- Terrell v. Eisner, 104 Fed.Appx. 210 (2d. Cir. 2004) (summary order)
- Briarpatch Ltd., L.P v. Phoenix Pictures, Inc., 373 F.3d 296 (2d. Cir. 2004) (Cardomone writing)
- Tufenkian Import/Export Ventures, Inc. v. Einstein Moomjy, Inc., 338 F.3d 127 (2d. Cir. 2003) (Calabresi writing).
- Queenie, Ltd. v. Nygard Intern., 321 F.3d 282 (2d. Cir. 2003) (Sotomayor concurring)
- Nadel v. Isaksson, 321 F.3d 266 (2d. Cir. 2002) (breach of oral royalty agreement) (Sotomayor writing)
- Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp., 306 F.3d 17 (2d. Cir. 2002) (Sotomayor writing) (the validity of arbitration clauses in click-through contract)
- Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. v. West Publishing Co., 2002 WL 1583912 (2d. Cir. 2002) (summary order on attorneys’ fees)
- Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. v. West Pub. Co., 240 F.3d 116 (2d. Cir. 2001) (Straub writing)
- Oliveira v. Frito-Lay, Inc., 251 F.3d 56 (2d. Cir. 2001) (Leval writing) (affirming dismissal of trademark claim brought by Astrud Gilberto for use of her recording in a commercial)
- Tishberg v. Doe, 8 Fed.Appx. 93 (2d. Cir. 2001) (summary order)
- Bassett v. Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, 204 F.3d 343 (2d. Cir. 2001) (Leval writing)
- Nadel v. Play-By-Play Toys & Novelties, Inc., 208 F.3d 368 (2d. Cir. 2000) (Sotomayor writing) (has a great opening line)
- Nedakkuc Art Co. Ltd. v. Washington Mint, LLC, 208 F.3d 203 (2d. Cir. 2000) (summary order)
- A. Brod, Inc. v. SK&I Co., L.L.C., 998 F.Supp. 314 (S.D.N.Y. 1998)
- Tasini v. New York Times Co., 981 F.Supp. 841 (S.D.N.Y. 1997)
- Tasini v. New York Times Co., 972 F.Supp. 804 (S.D.N.Y. 1997)
- Castle Rock Entertainment v. Carol Pub. Group, Inc., 955 F.Supp. 260 (S.D.N.Y. 1997)
- Favia v. Lyons Partnership, 1996 WL 194306 (S.D.N.Y. 1996)
- Top Rank, Inc. v. Allerton Lounge, Inc., 1998 WL 35152791 (S.D.N.Y. 1996) (adopting Judge Magistrate recommendation for statutory damages)
- Krueger International, Inc. v. Nightingale, Inc., 915 F.Supp. 595 (S.D.N.Y. 1996) (tradedress action)
- Comedy III Productions, Inc. v. Class Publications, Inc., 1996 WL 219636 (S.D.N.Y. 1996) (Lanham Act)
- Peer Intern. Corp. v. Luna Records, Inc., 887 F.Supp. 560 (S.D.N.Y. 1996)
- Peer Intern. Corp. v. Luna Records, Inc., 1995 WL 125389 (S.D.N.Y. 1995)
- Peer Intern. Corp. v. Luna Records, Inc.,1995 WL 350916 (S.D.N.Y. 1995) (motion for attorneys’ fees)
- Jaguar Cars, Ltd. v. Nat. Football League, 886 F.Supp. 335 (S.D.N.Y. 1995) (Lanham Act)
- Galet v. Carolace Embroidery Products Co., Inc., 1994 WL 542275 (S.D.N.Y. 1994)
- Screenlife Establishment v. Tower Video, Inc., 868 F.Supp. 47 (S.D.N.Y. 1994)
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Thank you for putting this together.
C.T., thanks for the thanks.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am Gregory L. Hudson, the Pro Se Litigant in Hudson v. Universal Studios; whereby Judge Sotomayor presided and rightfully REMANDED my case back to the SDNY. Prior to this REMAND, my first appeal was affirmed by 3 white male judges, including Michael Mukasey all of whom had pre determined that they were not going to rule in my favor in spite of the facts, the evidence and the rule of law. On this appeal, Judge Sotomayor had the courage and intergrity to rule in the name of justice as opposed to who the parties involved were. I specifically requested that the 2nd circuit did not put 3 white, male, jewish judges on that panel and was fortunate enough to have been blessed with Sotomayor. It comes as no surprised to me that she is now being considered as a supreme court judge.
By the way, the same SDNY court has dismissed my case again after the REMAND. I filed my appeal on June 12, 2009 and the defendants’ attorneys promptly requested an additional 30 which was granted to file their opposition.
It never ceases to amaze me that all of these law blogs and/or law journal seldom if ever report rulings against certain law firms…especially when they are beaten by Pro Se Litigants.
If you are truly interested in justice and due process of the law for all…take a look at my appeal brief 09-0187-cv. If the coruption and judicial misconduct doen’t turn your stomach…then you have lost all of that which makes us human.
Respectfully,
Gregory L. Hudson, Pro Se
Hudson v. Unversal Studios
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