Legal Opinion
Janky v. Batistatos
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided April 24, 2008No. 2:07-cv-339PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PHILIP P. SIMON, District Judge.
This is one of those cases that gives lawyers a bad name. It began as a routine copyright infringement dispute but has deteriorated into a nuclear arms race of costly litigation tactics and the worst kind of mean spirited attorney game-playing. It has spawned two federal cases, three appeals, one state case, a judicial recusal and multiple instances of court-imposed sanctions. Some of the low lights include the filing of spurious motions and a letter from one party to another containing bad poetry composed by one of the lawyers. [DE 22-8].
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