August 15, 2018
The Ninth Circuit agreed Wednesday to grant $17,000 in attorneys' fees and costs to counsel for actress Elizabeth Banks in an appeal over a prior $319,000 in fees she won after fighting off a company's copyright infringement suit over the 2014 comedy "Walk of Shame."
April 13, 2018
A production company urged the Ninth Circuit Friday to overturn an award of $319,000 in attorneys' fees and costs after actress Elizabeth Banks fought off the company's copyright infringement suit over the 2014 comedy "Walk of Shame," arguing that the order will effectively "bar the courthouse door" to all but a few well-heeled copyright plaintiffs.
September 18, 2017
Actress Elizabeth Banks has asked the Ninth Circuit to affirm a California judge's award of $319,000 in attorneys' fees after she successfully fought off a copyright infringement lawsuit over the 2014 comedy "Walk of Shame" that a lower court found shared only "isolated similarities" with an unproduced screenplay.