Nearly seven years ago, Floyd “Money” Mayweather faced off against Ricky Hatton, defending his WBC Welterweight Championship by going 10 rounds with the challenger after dropping Hatton to the floor with a left hook.
But lawyers are still duking it out over whether a pizza joint that allegedly showed the fight on TV without paying a licensing fee was hitting below the belt. That’s the federal telecommunications issue of first impression with which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sparred recently.
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