DirecTV, Inc. v. Webb

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the statutory-damages provision “suggests” that each signal interception does not constitute a separate violation because it “contemplat[es] a single violation . . . over many days”
• \cause of action generally accrues when a plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of his action\
• “When a federal statute does not have its own statute of limitations, we are directed to borrow a period from the forum state’s analogous state law”
• “[S]ince the 1984 amendments[,] the ‘communications’ protected by § 605(a) include satellite television signals.”
• “[T]he Wiretap Act is aimed largely at privacy protection,” and the “emphasis on privacy is evident in both the legislative history of the Wiretap Act and in the breadth of its prohibitions.”
• “direct evidence of signal piracy is not required to prove unlawful interception”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).