The non-monetary sanctions imposed on a lawyer and his firm for pursuing a baseless copyright claim and lying to the trial court are reasonable, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Friday.
Richard P. Liebowitz of the Liebowitz Law Firm PLLC represented Arthur Usherson in a lawsuit accusing Bandshell Artist Management of infringing Usherson’s copyright for a photograph of musician Leon Redbone.
The district court concluded that the complaint falsely stated Usherson’s photograph was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. It also determined that Liebowitz failed to reasonably investigate the matter, continued to maintain the lawsuit after ...
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