A federal judge has imposed sanctions against a law firm for violating a protective order barring its lawyers from using confidential information from one photography copyright infringement case in another lawsuit against the same defendant.

In Grant Heilman Photography v. Pearson Education, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted defendant Pearson Education’s request for sanctions against the law firm of Harmon Seidman Bruss & Kerr for violating the order barring disclosure of secret documents in public or in separate cases.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]