Ground Zero Museum Workshop v. Wilson

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that Maryland “rel[ies] heavily on the Restatement (Second) of Torts” in defining a trespass to chattel claim
• stating that Maryland “rel[ies] heavily on the Restatement (Second) of Torts” in defining a trespass to chattel claim
• explaining that Erie Railroad Co. v. Thompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) “mandates that federal courts apply the substantive laws of the states when exercising . . . supplemental jurisdiction”
• finding that either the “law of the place where the chattel was located” or “the place where Plaintiffs were located at the time of the alleged trespass” would apply
• “[U]sing a password or security code to access a copyrighted work, even without authorization, does not constitute ‘circumvention’ under the DMCA”
• permitting counterclaims to proceed because they were “indisputably at issue for the majority of the discovery period” and defendant had indicated his intent to pursue the -23- counterclaims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).