‘Hayley Paige’ Instagram Ownership Still Fluid Despite Ruling

Wedding dress designer Hayley Paige Gutman and her former company, JLM Couture Inc., disagree over how and when a Second Circuit axing of an order to transfer an Instagram account should be enforced, raising intriguing procedural questions.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York had ordered Gutman to surrender a contested 1.1 million-follower Instagram account to JLM. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit faulted the lower court’s basis for the transfer.

At the same time, the appeals court left open the possibility the ruling could be reinstated if the district court analyzed factors ...