Second Circuit Upholds $100K Sanction Against Copyright Attorney

New York attorney Richard Liebowitz must pay over $103,000 as a sanction after he was found to have violated court orders and repeatedly lied to a judge, the Second Circuit affirmed.

The ruling comes a month after the appeals court upheld a series of non-monetary sanctions that Judge Jesse Furman in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York brought against Liebowitz in the same copyright case.

Liebowitz argued the monetary sanctions - over $83,500 in attorney’s fees and $20,000 for falsely alleging the photograph was registered with the Copyright Office - should be thrown out, or ...