King Vision Pay-Per-View Ltd. v. Spice Restaurant & Lounge, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MURGUIA, District Judge.

This case arises out of defendants’ allegedly willful and illegal interception and misappropriation of a closed circuit exhibition of the November 13, 1999 boxing match between Evander Holyfíeld and Lennox Lewis. Plaintiff asserts that it possessed the proprietary rights to exhibit and sublicense the right to exhibit the closed-circuit telecast of the November 13, 1999 event. Plaintiff contends that defendants unlawfully intercepted the transmission of this event and made it available to patrons of defendants’ establishment, all in violation of 47…