Legal Opinion
Malibu Media, LLC v. John Does 1-31
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided August 13, 2012No. 1:12-CV-616PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ROBERT J. JONKER, District Judge.
On June 14, 2012, Plaintiff filed five complaints in this District alleging that a number of unnamed, “John Doe” defendants infringed its copyrights. The five cases have been re-assigned under the Court’s cognate cases rule to a single Judge — the Judge randomly selected for the first-filed case. Each “John Doe” Defendant corresponds to an internet protocol (“IP”) address that allegedly used a BitTorrent file-sharing protocol to illegally download and distribute Plaintiffs copyrighted movies. Plaintiff subsequently filed a Motion for Leave to Serve Third…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Guest v. LeisCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
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