WASHINGTON – An $18 million settlement of a copyright infringement suit between Internet publishers and freelance writers is back on track because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday.
In Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, the justices, in an 8-0 decision, held that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was wrong when it ruled in 2008 that the district court lacked jurisdiction to certify the class or the settlement in the litigation. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a former Second Circuit judge, did not participate in the high court case.
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