08 Jan, 2023 Attorney and Clients Sanctioned $2.5mm For Pursuing Objectively Unreasonable Lawsuit Against Wrong Party By Khasim Lockhart On April 30, 2013, Robert Fletcher and Bartlow Gallery Ltd. (“Bartlow”) (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) brought a lawsuit against Peter Doig...
12 Dec, 2021 An End-of-Year Update: Borat, Liebowitz, the Houston Astros and the Vineyard Porn Case By Edward H. Rosenthal As we approach the end of 2021, here is an update on a few of the cases and matters I have blogged about over the past year or so. In...
30 Jun, 2020 Court sanctions Liebowitz $103K! Requires service of a copy of the order on all of his clients and filing in all of his cases!! But can the Court do that? By Edward H. Rosenthal Tyler Maulsby If you heard a collective gasp last Friday, it could have been caused by the latest news about prolific copyright infringement filer...
21 Jul, 2019 Liebowitz Wins Statutory Damage Award -- But It’s Only $750 By Edward H. Rosenthal Following a one-day bench trial, SDNY Judge Geoffrey Woods awarded the plaintiff in a copyright infringement case $750 in statutory...
12 Jul, 2019 Another Liebowitz sanction! By Edward H. Rosenthal In my post earlier this week, I described how one SDNY judge (Oetken) sanctioned copyright plaintiff's lawyer Richard Liebowitz and his...
11 Jul, 2019 $100,000 sanction against Richard Liebowitz and his firm By Edward H. Rosenthal In a decision this week in a case entitled Craig v. UMG Recordings, Inc., et al., SDNY Judge J. Paul Oetken denied a motion by Craig to...