Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy
Docket No.
22-1078
Granted:
September 29, 2023
Argued:
February 21, 2024
Materials
| Argued. For petitioners: Kannon K. Shanmugam, Washington, D. C. For respondents: Joe Wesley Earnhardt, New York, N. Y.; and Yaira Dubin, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) |
| Reply of Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. submitted. |
| Reply of petitioners Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. |
| Amicus brief of United States submitted. |
| Amicus brief of The Authors Guild, Inc., The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund, The Graphic Artists Guild, The Romance Writers of America, The Songwriters Guild of America, Inc. and the Textbook & Academic Authors Association submitted. |
| Amicus brief of Former Register of Copyrights Ralph Oman submitted. |
| Motion of United States for leave to participate in oral argument and for divided argument submitted. |
| Amicus brief of National Society of Entertainment & Arts Lawyers submitted. |
| Brief amicus curiae of National Society of Entertainment & Arts Lawyers filed. (Distributed) |
| Brief amicus curiae of Former Register of Copyrights Ralph Oman filed. (Distributed) |
| Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed. |
| Brief amici curiae of The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. (Distributed) |
| CIRCULATED. |
| Record received from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The record is electronic and is available on PACER. |
| Partial record received from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The record is electronic and is available on PACER. |
| Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. |
| Brief of Sherman Nealy, et al. submitted. |
| SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. |
| Brief of Sherman Nealy, et al. not accepted for filing. (January 09, 2024--Corrected PDF and hard copy served on 1/5/24.) |
| Brief of Sherman Nealy, et al. submitted. |
| Brief of respondents Sherman Nealy, et al. filed. |
| Amicus brief of Recording Industry Association of America and National Music Publishers’ Association submitted. |
| Amicus brief of McHale & Slavin, P.A. submitted. |
| Amicus brief of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Authors Alliance, American Library Association an Association of Research Libraries submitted. |
| Amicus brief of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America submitted. |
| Amicus brief of Association of American Publishers submitted. |
| Brief amicus curiae of Association of American Publishers filed. |
| Brief amicus curiae of Recording Industry Association of America filed. |
| Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America filed. |
| Brief amici curiae of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Authors Alliance, American Library Association an Association of Research Libraries filed. |
| Brief amicus curiae of McHale & Slavin, P.A. in support of neither party filed. |
| Amicus brief of Krystina L. Cavazos, Orly Ravid, Robert C. Lind and Michael M. Epstein submitted. |
| Brief amicus curiae of American Intellectual Property Law Association in support of neither party filed. |
| Amicus brief of American Intellectual Property Law Association submitted. |
| Amicus brief of Tyler T. Ochoa submitted. |
| Brief amicus curiae of Tyler T. Ochoa in support of neither party filed. |
| Brief amici curiae of Southwestern Law Student Krystina Cavazos, et al. filed. |
| Brief of Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. submitted. |
| Brief of petitioners Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. filed. |
| Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioners GRANTED. |
| Motion to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' brief on the merits is extended to and including November 24, 2023. The time to file respondents' brief on the merits is extended to and including January 5, 2024. |
| Motion of Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. to dispense with joint appendix submitted. |
| Letter re merits briefing schedule of Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. submitted. |
| Motion for an extension of time file the briefs on the merits filed. |
| Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioners Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. |
| Petition GRANTED limited to the following question: Whether, under the discovery accrual rule applied by the circuit courts and the Copyright Act's statute of limitations for civil actions, 17 U. S. C. §507(b), a copyright plaintiff can recover damages for acts that allegedly occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit. |
| DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023. |
| Reply of petitioners Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America filed. |
| Brief amici curiae of Recording Industry Association of America and National Music Publishers’ Association filed. |
| Brief of respondents Sherman Nealy, et al. in opposition filed. |
| Brief amici curiae of Krystina L. Cavazos, et al. filed |
| Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 5, 2023) |
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