Tolbert v. High Noon Productions LLC

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA MIDDLE DIVISION MELANIE TOLBERT, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Case No. 4:18-CV-00680-KOB ) ) DISCOVERY, INC. a/k/a DISCOVERY ) COMMUNICATIONS, LLC f/k/a ) SCRIPPS NETWORK INTERACTIVE, ) INC., a/k/a SCRIPPS NETWORKS, LLC, ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION In 1887, American playwright and novelist Constance Cary Harrison wrote in her book Bar Harbor Days, “Our boys say you are a copy cat, if you write in anything that’s already been printed.”1 That line is one of the first known uses of the phrase “copycat,” now a derogatory…