Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the “fragmented literal similarity” standard but declining to apply it in cases of digital sampling
• finding that “amendments on the eve of the close of discovery would be prejudicial to defendants and unduly delay trial”
• affirming a district court’s denial of leave to amend a complaint with only a few weeks left in discovery
• “Delay, however will become ‘undue’ at some point, placing an unwarranted burden on the court, or ‘prejudicial’, placing an unfair burden on the opposing party.”
• “The district court’s criticisms go beyond just [the length and number of claims], however, and are tied to conduct that complicated rather than streamlined the issues and contributed to the multiplication of fees for the defendant.”
• “It is not the deterrence of objectively reasonable good faith claims, but the interest in motivating plaintiffs to sort through the objectively unreasonable ones and prosecute this at best cumbersome litigation in a way that discriminates between parties and claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).