16 Casa Duse, LLC v. Merkin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that jurisdiction existed because party “agreed to a dismissal of his remaining claim . . . with prejudice” at oral argument
• holding that where multiple individuals lay claim to a work, \the dispositive inquiry is which of the putative authors is the 'dominant author' \
• holding that \a director's contribution to an integrated 'work of authorship' such as a film is not itself a 'work of authorship' subject to its own copyright protection\
• concluding that defendant’s actions, “however misguided, . . . did not amount to ‘the sort of egregious wrongdoing that might support a tortious interference claim in the absence of an independently unlawful act or evil motive’”
• noting that where a defendant acts for “normal economic self-interest, wrongful means have not been shown”
• noting that tortious interference with business relations is “also known as tortious interference with prospective economic advantage”

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Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.
  Supreme Court· 1991-03-27· cited 2,678×
• Cobbledick v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1940-02-26· cited 1,204×
• Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-05· cited 1,141×
• Lama Holding Co. v. Smith Barney Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1996-06-13· cited 1,127×
• Carvel Corp. v. Noonan
  New York Court of Appeals· 2004-10-14· cited 415×
• NBT Bancorp Inc. v. Fleet/Norstar Financial Group, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1996-03-26· cited 284×
• Bryant v. Media Right Productions, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2010-04-27· cited 180×
• In Re: Jerasimos Papapanayotou, Esq., Jerasimos Papapanayotou, Esq. v. Jeffrey Sapir, Esq., as Chapter 7 Trustee
  Second Circuit· 2000-07-10· cited 155×
• National Basketball Ass'n v. Motorola, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1997-01-30· cited 152×
• Catskill Development, L.L.C. v. Park Place Entertainment Corp.
  Second Circuit· 2008-10-21· cited 151×
• Heidi S. Weissmann, M.D., Cross-Appellee v. Leonard M. Freeman, M.D., Cross-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1989-02-23· cited 149×
• Atlanta Shipping Corporation, Inc. v. Chemical Bank
  Second Circuit· 1987-04-29· cited 145×
• Kip Rano v. Sipa Press, Inc., Sipa, Inc., Goskin Sipahioglu, Sipa
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-03-24· cited 130×
• Blanch v. Koons
  Second Circuit· 2006-10-26· cited 126×
• Larry Weyant, Charles Weyant v. George S. Okst, Irvin Richard Weber, Joseph Peter Auberger, Lawrence Mueller
  Second Circuit· 1999-12-02· cited 108×
• McGill v. Parker
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-03-24· cited 99×
• Carol Barnhart Inc. v. Economy Cover Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1985-09-12· cited 97×
• Graham v. James
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-18· cited 95×
• Alice Childress v. Clarice Taylor, Paul B. Berkowsky, the Moms Company, and Ben Caldwell
  Second Circuit· 1991-09-18· cited 92×
• Jtc Petroleum Company v. Piasa Motor Fuels, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-08-17· cited 89×