Aereo Update: Side Action in Utah [telecom]

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by Kevin Goldberg, CommLawBlog, February 10, 2014

Poster's note: in the following message, the "Blogmeister" is CommLawBlog's webmaster, not me.

| [Blogmeister's Note: If you've got the Heartbreak of ALA (that | would be Aereo Litigation Addiction) and you're jonesin' for some | action while you're waiting for the Big Showdown at the Supreme

| Court later the spring, you're in luck. On February 11, the U.S. | District Court in Utah is going to be holding a hearing on (a) the | broadcasters' motions for preliminary injunction (here and here) | and (b) Aereo's motion to move the case out of Utah and back to the | more Aereo-friendly Southern District of New York. Aereo has also | filed a separate motion asking the trial judge to put the Utah case | on hold until the Supreme Court acts on the Second Circuit case. | The Utah court took that last motion under advisement on | February 7. | | There are obviously a number of moving parts here, so we called in | the Swami [Kevin Goldberg] for his thoughts on how this might shake | out. Here's his take on the various items on the table - the Aereo | transfer motion, the Aereo motion to stay proceedings and the | broadcasters' motions for a preliminary injunction.] | | This is pretty hard to put odds on.

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Neal McLain