Case: Copyrights/Procedure (9th Cir.)

The Ninth Circuit affirmed the decision of a federal district court in California denying Pandora Media LLC’s renewed motion to strike under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, Flo & Eddie Inc.'s copyright infringement action over songs by the 1960s rock band The Turtles. The appeals court said that Pandora failed to show its broadcast qualified as protected conduct because it didn’t advance debate on a public issue, but it did direct the lower court to consider expedited motions practice on the legal validity of the copyright claims because the matter had been pending for more than seven years.