CoxCom, Inc. v. Chaffee

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that appellants’ “active participation both leading up to and during the bench trial,” coupled with a failure to “specifically object to the lack of a jury,” constituted waiver
• determining that a cable company’s pay-per-view system, which scrambled pay-per-view programming unless a subscriber purchased the content, constituted an access control
• finding waiver where pro se party actively participated in bench trial without objecting until after trial
• noting plaintiffs need only show that they were “directly affected by the conduct complained of, and therefore have a personal stake in the suit” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• “The district court’s earlier findings in support of the ... preliminary injunction, combined with [the plaintiffs] success on the merits, supports the permanent injunction.”
• “[T]he public has an interest in the enforcement of federal statutes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).