Porgo v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Muller, J.), entered March 20, 2013 in Clinton County, which granted plaintiffs motion for a temporary restraining order.

Following a highly publicized trial, plaintiff was convicted of the murder of his father and attempted murder of his mother while they slept in their home. When plaintiff learned that defendant was planning to broadcast a movie depicting a dramatized version of the events surrounding the murder and his subsequent prosecution, he commenced this action for injunctive relief asserting that the use of his name in connection with the…