International Cablevision, Inc. D/B/A Adelphia Cable v. John Sykes and Marvin Noel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that both Section 605 and Section 553 cover interception of cable programming transmitted over a cable network
• noting that although the provisions overlap in some ways, there is not a “complete overlap between the coverage of § 605 and 553”
• finding that the third sentence of § 605(a) applies to \programming distributed from the headend of a cable television system\ as long as it \originate[d] as a radio communication\
• mentioning in passing that § 605(e)(3)(A) “provides a civil action to ‘[a]ny person aggrieved by any violation of [§ 605(a)] or [§ 605(e)(4)]’” without indicating that this broad provision was limited and without making reference to § 605(d)(6)
• “The first sentence of § 605(a) is probably directed at communications personnel, as the district court indicated in Noel.”
• \The first sentence of § 605(a) is probably directed at communications personnel.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).