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· 3/10/2010

Russian Media Group, LLC v. Cable America, Inc.

Citations

  • 598 F.3d 302
  • 49 Communications Reg. (P&F) 967
  • 76 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 236
  • 38 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1475
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 5116
  • 2010 WL 785873

How courts have described this case

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

  • inviting defendants to seek modification of injunction from district court if they desired to engage in legal conduct that would otherwise violate the order
  • “It is not appropriate for this court to overturn an injunction on the basis of a defense that the district court had no opportunity to consider.”
  • defendant had demonstrated tendency for unlawful conduct and for violating court’s orders, which warranted a broadly-worded order
  • “district court has the discretion to issue a broad injunction” where “a proclivity for unlawful conduct has been shown”
  • where res judicata applies, the doctrine “reaches both claims that were actually asserted in an earlier lawsuit and those that could have been asserted but were not”
  • appropriate scope of injunction is left to district court’s sound discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Flaum, Rovner, Hamilton

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