9 results for 'judge:"Irizarry"'.
J. Irizarry dismisses all federal copyright infringement claims against a group of audio book streaming services, including Amazon-owned Audible, over the rights to stream audio books based on the writings of Teri Woods, an acclaimed urban fiction writer. The court finds the streaming services were granted full rights to distribute the works on their respective platforms.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Irizarry, Filed On: March 30, 2024, Case #: 1:23cv507, NOS: Copyrights - Property Rights, Categories: Copyright, Technology
J. Irizarry dismisses a manual laborer’s federal and state unpaid wages and wage statement complaint against a window blinds supplier, finding that, while he sufficiently alleges the supplier is his employer, his claims lack specificity concerning how much he received in compensation and how many hours he worked. The court grants him leave to amend.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Irizarry, Filed On: September 30, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv7266, NOS: Fair Labor Standards Act - Labor, Categories: Employment, Labor
J. Irizarry denies a political activist’s motion for leave to amend her defamation lawsuit that alleges Joy Reid, a well-known television news anchor featured on MSNBC, retweeted on Twitter a photo of her that suggested she was screaming racist slurs at a 14-year-old boy during a city council meeting in Simi Valley, California. Reid, after being informed about the error, deleted the post and issued an apology. The activist now seeks to add Reid’s employers to the complaint, NBCUniversal Media and MSNBC Cable. The court finds the new claims are futile or unrelated and she fails to demonstrate good cause as to why she filed the motion after the relevant deadline had expired.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Irizarry, Filed On: September 30, 2023, Case #: 1:18cv5398, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Defamation
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J. Irizarry denies judgment to a commercial landlord on claims brought by McDonald’s for violations under the fast-food chain’s 20-year lease agreement. The chain proffers enough evidence for its declaratory relief claim to allege the landlord failed to cooperate with the appraisal process when it misled an appraiser in the hopes of maintaining an unfairly high rent for the location, which McDonald’s alleges was a pressure tactic to get it to vacate the property and thus give them the opportunity to execute their plans to build a high-rise development in its place.l
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Irizarry, Filed On: September 27, 2023, Case #: 1:19cv6471, NOS: Other Contract - Contract, Categories: Landlord Tenant, Contract