Graham v. Prince
- Sidney Stein
- 1:15-cv-10160
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Graham v. Prince, Judge Stein ordered supplemental briefing on recent copyright decisions before ruling on defendants’ pending summary-judgment motions.
The defendants had to file supplemental memoranda by September 15, 2021, and the plaintiffs could file responses by September 22, 2021, in the two related copyright actions.
What happened
Graham v. Prince and the related McNatt v. Prince cases are copyright actions involving Richard Prince and other defendants. The opinion does not describe the underlying copyright disputes in detail.
The court ordered defendants to file memoranda of no more than 25 pages by September 15, 2021, addressing how two recent decisions affected their pending motions for summary judgment. Plaintiffs could file responses of no more than 25 pages by September 22, 2021. The order did not decide those motions or the copyright claims.
Judge Sidney H. Stein issued the order on August 25, 2021.
The detailed version
- Graham v. Prince · No. 1:15-cv-10160
- Sidney Stein
- Aug. 25, 2021
Background
The court identified Graham v. Prince and McNatt v. Prince as related copyright actions. Defendants had pending motions for summary judgment, which are motions asking the court to decide claims without a trial when the relevant facts are not genuinely disputed. The order does not state the specific copyright issues raised in those motions.
Order
The court ordered defendants to file supplemental memoranda of no more than 25 pages by September 15, 2021. The memoranda had to address the effect of Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1183 (2021), and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 992 F.3d 99 (2d Cir. 2021), as amended on August 24, 2021, on the pending summary-judgment motions. Plaintiffs were permitted to file responsive memoranda of no more than 25 pages by September 22, 2021.
Disposition
The order required additional briefing; it did not grant or deny the pending summary-judgment motions and did not resolve the copyright claims. Judge Sidney H. Stein issued the order.
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