Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has handled few communicati...
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has handled few communications matters as a federal appeals or district court judge. She did write the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in a 2008 case upholding a district judge’s ruling that…
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a Kansas man had no claim against the reorganized MCI for pre-bankruptcy claims. In that case, In re: WorldCom Inc., Victor Browning sued MCI, saying the company had been unjustly enriched by installing without permission telecom cables in a railroad right of way across land he owned. Sotomayor, as a district court judge, had ruled in New York Times Co. v. Tasini that publishers could license the work of freelance journalists when their work was sold for inclusion in an electronic databases such as LexisNexis. The decision was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision. As a lawyer at New York’s Pavia & Harcourt in the 1980s, Sotomayor specialized in part in intellectual-property law.