November 07, 2023
A decision from the Ninth Circuit has put a lawyer personally on the hook for more than $100,000 in legal fees arising from a failed lawsuit he filed over an allegedly copyright-infringing PowerPoint presentation, signing off on a California federal judge's decision that the lawyer either refused to hand over the allegedly infringed works or intentionally continued to litigate after it became clear the infringed works did not in fact exist.