A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern...
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the case against Dish Network’s Auto Hop feature should be heard in a Los Angeles court. Dish urged the court to allow the case…
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to be heard in New York. There is “no useful or appropriate purpose in entertaining Dish’s declaratory judgment action to the extent that it overlaps with the litigation pending in the Central District of California,” Judge Laura Swain said in a memorandum opinion and order. Fox Entertainment, CBS and NBCUniversal sued Dish separately in May against the feature that allows customers to skip ads when recording programs (CD May 29 p6). In a statement, Fox said it can now move on to “demonstrating that Dish Network has created and marketed a product with the clear goal of breaching its license with Fox, violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television business.” Dish had no comment right away.