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Fifth Circuit· 8/9/2005

DIRECTV, Inc. v. Robson

Citations

  • 420 F.3d 532
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 16679
  • 2005 WL 1870775

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that § 2520(a) does not provide a private right of action “for merely possessing or purchasing” a device in violation of § 2512(1)(b)
  • noting that § 2520(a)- does not provide a private right of action “for merely possessing or purchasing” a device in violation of § 2512(l)(b)
  • ruling that § 605(e)(4) is not categorically inapplicable to “individual users”
  • rejecting district court’s statement that 605(e)(4) “is a provision relating to manufacturers and sellers, rather than to individual users”
  • collecting cases that have found “no merit in [the] assertion that § 2520 expressly provides a private cause of action for [all] violations of the criminal proscriptions of § 2512” (alterations, citation, and internal quotation marks omitted)
  • collecting cases that have found “no merit in [the] assertion that § 2520 expressly provides a private cause of action for [all] violations of the criminal proscriptions of § 2512” (alterations, citation, and internal quotation marks omitted)

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Judges: Higginbotham, Barksdale, Clement

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Cites

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