Litigation
May 29, 2014
In first appellate ruling, court rejects company's bid for porn users' identities
Prenda Law abused discovery rules in seeking identities from telecoms, D.C. court says
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In the first appellate ruling on a company's legal right to obtain the anonymous identities of Internet users for downloading copyrighted materials, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia handed a win to telecommunications providers that fought the subpoenas.
"Sometimes individuals seek to manipulate judicial procedures to serve their own improper ends," U.S. C...
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