plagiarism

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-416 Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated?
21-7117 Frederick Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation plagiarism witness-testimony Was Frederick Muse's constitutional right to due process violated when the district court plagiarized a 31-count word-for-word/comma-for-comma misrepr…
19-1290 Michael T. Bennett v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) admissions-of-guilt character-design civil-procedure copyright-infringement damages defamation discovery intellectual-property plagiarism poor-man's-copyright standing If the Court finds that the Marvel Character 'Falcon' in the 2014 Captain America The Winter Soldier movie looks strikingly similar from the neck down…
18-1557 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rico copyright-act copyright-infringement creative-rights due-process fair-use first-amendment intellectual-property licensing plagiarism Whether literary works are protected under copyright law similarly to music sampling