Legal Opinion
Fogerty v. MGM Group Holdings Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 3, 2004No. 03-5498, 03-5874PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Frank P. Fogerty and Nathan Crow appeal the district court’s order granting summary judgment and awarding attorneys’ fees to defendants (collectively, “MGM”) in this copyright infringement case. As we agree with the district court that plaintiffs have not presented a sustainable theory of relief, we affirm that ruling. As we disagree with the district court’s award of attorneys’ fees, we reverse that ruling.
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