Legal Opinion
Green v. U.S. Dep't of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 27, 2019No. Civil Action No. 16-1492 (EGS)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Emmet G. Sullivan, United States District Judge
Plaintiffs Matthew Green, Andrew Huang, and Alphamax, LLC seek to engage in certain activities for which they fear they will be prosecuted under the "anti-circumvention" provision and one of the "anti-trafficking" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Accordingly, they have brought a pre-enforcement challenge to those two provisions alleging that they violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution facially and as applied to their proposed activities. They additionally claim that the Librarian of Congress's…
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