Riviera Distributors, Inc. v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the copyright defendant prevailed because the court granted the plaintiff's motion for voluntary dismissal
• holding that the copyright defendant prevailed because the court granted the plaintiff’s motion for voluntary dismissal
• explaining that a prevailing party in copyright litigation is \presumptively entitled to reimbursement of its attorneys' fees\
• explaining that a prevailing party in copyright litigation is “presump‐ tively entitled to reimbursement of its attorneys’ fees”
• holding voluntary dismissal with prejudice of copyright claims confers prevailing party status on defendants under Buckhannon
• holding defendants are the prevailing party when a suit is dismissed “on the plaintiff's own motion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cadkin v. Loose
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-06-26· cited 48×
• Mostly Memories, Inc. v. for Your Ease Only, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-05-27· cited 42×
• Hyperquest, Inc. v. N'Site Solutions, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-01-19· cited 40×
• FM Industries, Inc. v. Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-07-22· cited 15×
• Christian Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin Doyle
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-07-19· cited 11×
• Alliance for Water Efficiency v. James Fryer
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-06-05· cited 8×
• Live Face on Web, LLC v. Cremation Society of Illinois, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-08-11· cited 7×
• Eagle Services Corp. v. H2O Industrial Services, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-07-09· cited 6×
• Willacy v. Marotta
  Sixth Circuit· 2017-03-24· cited 6×
• Christopher & Banks Corp. v. Dillard's, Inc.
  S.D. Iowa· 2011-08-03· cited 2×
• HyperQuest, Inc. v. N'SITE SOLUTIONS, INC.
  N.D. Illinois· 2008-06-18
• Mostly Memories Inc v. For Your Ease Only
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-05-27
• Eagle Services Corp v. H2O Indus Services
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-07-09

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Inc. v. West Virginia Dept. of Health and Human Resources
  Supreme Court· 2001-05-29· cited 3,075×
• Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-01· cited 1,767×
• Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-28· cited 1,755×
• Mother and Father v. James Cassidy
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-07-30· cited 102×
• Assessment Technologies of Wi, LLC v. Wiredata, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-03-17· cited 68×
• Omni Tech Corporation, Terry Anderson, and Nancy Anderson v. Mpc Solutions Sales, Llc, and Mpc Computers, LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-12-30· cited 30×
• Woodhaven Homes & Realty, Inc. v. Barbara Hotz and Dale Hotz v. Douglas E. Robbins and Robbins Electric, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-01-28· cited 24×