IN LUX RESEARCH et al v. HULL MCGUIRE PC et al

  1. January 28, 2025

    Proud Boys Atty Beats Researcher's IP Claim In Mixed Verdict

    A Washington, D.C., federal jury Tuesday cleared an attorney who defended a Proud Boy accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol of infringing a Texas-based researcher's copyright, but found that the attorney owes the researcher $77,000 for skipping out on his bill.

  2. January 27, 2025

    Proud Boys Atty Calls Researcher Copyright Claim A 'Ruse'

    A Texas-based researcher laid out her case against an attorney she accuses of violating her copyright and skipping out on his bill, claiming that her firm foundered after the lawyer, who was defending a Proud Boy accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol, didn't tell her he couldn't pay.

  3. January 06, 2025

    Jury Will Hear Proud Boys 'Context' In Trial Against Law Firm

    A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawyer and law firm who supposedly misused a Texas company's jury pool research can't keep a jury from hearing certain details about their defense of Proud Boys who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

  4. June 24, 2024

    Research Co. Seeks Sanctions On Proud Boys Atty In IP Suit

    A Texas research firm pursuing copyright infringement claims against a group of defense attorneys who represented members of the Proud Boys wants one of the lawyers sanctioned for filing "a frivolous and groundless counterclaim" in the D.C. federal court litigation.

  5. February 26, 2024

    Proud Boys' Attys Can't Escape IP Suit In DC

    A D.C. federal judge has denied a bid to throw out a copyright suit from a group of criminal defense attorneys who represented members of the Proud Boys involved in the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.

  6. November 28, 2023

    Proud Boys Attys Pulled Back Into Jury Research Co.'s IP Suit

    Several attorneys defending Proud Boys members must face a new claim in a jury research firm's copyright suit alleging they wrongly used its reports to bolster clients' Jan. 6 insurrection criminal defenses, a D.C. federal judge has ruled roughly two months after excusing all but the one attorney who commissioned a report.

  7. September 20, 2023

    Proud Boys Attys Except One Beat Research Co.'s Billing Suit

    A jury research firm claiming that several Proud Boys' defense attorneys used one of its reports during their clients' Jan. 6 insurrection criminal case without paying for the work had its copyright infringement case mostly thrown out in D.C. federal court this week.

  8. July 31, 2023

    Texas Co. Fights Proud Boys Attys' Bids To Evade Billing Suit

    A group of attorneys who defended several U.S. Capitol rioters benefited from a report on the local jury pool and cannot escape a lawsuit alleging they never paid a $30,000 fee to use the study, the company that produced the report has told a D.C. federal court.

  9. July 24, 2023

    Alex Jones' Atty Wants Out Of Proud Boys Billing Suit

    A lawyer best known for representing far-right conspiracy theorist talk show host Alex Jones is asking a Washington, D.C., federal judge to remove him from a suit brought by a Texas company accusing him and fellow attorneys representing members of extremist group the Proud Boys of skipping the bill for a report they commissioned.

  10. June 08, 2023

    Group Of Attys Exit Proud Boys Suit Over Alleged Unpaid Bill

    A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday dismissed a group of attorneys representing members of the Proud Boys extremist group from a suit alleging they skipped out on the bill for a report related to a Jan. 6 insurrection case.