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Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 14-17175 · judgment March 1, 2018


Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether by failing to clarify and update internet widespread dissemination access guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual property owners. Whether a decision based on the falsified report of a man who later confessed on FOX News that he was a "fixer" for President Clinton, can stand and set U.S. copyright precedent. Whether a ruling that ignores superseding law, to base itself in subordinate law, can be valid. Whether a plaintiff has the right to state his own copyright claims, or if the court has authority to omit and substantially alter a plaintiff's claims?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Steve K. Wilson Briggs

For respondent
Michael J. Kump
Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 01 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 08 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
  3. Jul 20 2018
    Waiver of right of respondents Neill Blomkamp, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Tristar Pictures, Inc.; Media Rights Capital II, L.P.; Qed International LLC to respond filed.
  4. Jun 30 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 10, 2018)