Barragan-Malfabon v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “whether a single actor directed or controlled the acts of one or more 22 third parties is a question of fact”
• noting that application of traditional agency principles is required for finding that agent’s acts can be attributed to principal as single entity
• noting that Limelight’s contract “deliniate[d] the steps customers must perform if they use the Limelight service”
• recognizing an entity is responsible for others’ infringement when it “directs or controls others’ performance”
• listing as possible legal frameworks the- ories from agency law, contract law, and the doctrine of joint enterprise, from which one could hold an entity liable for another’s action(s)
• \[P]rinciples of attribution are to be considered in the context of the particular facts presented.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).