Segundo Suenos, LLC v. Marshall Jones

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

AUG 28 2012

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SEGUNDO SUENOS, LLC, No. 10-56257

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:10-cv-02986-DMG-JC

v.

MEMORANDUM*

MARSHALL JONES, an indivdual,

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dolly M. Gee, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 16, 2012 Pasadena, California

Before: FARRIS and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and HELLERSTEIN, Senior District Judge.* *

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. ** The Honorable Alvin K. Hellerstein, Senior District Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, sitting by designation. 1 This case arises from successive lawsuits, first in the California

Superior Court and then in the U.S. District Court, over the same issue: whether

an assignment of copyrights to musical works by a popular band is valid. The

district court, following a 2003 precedent of this court, DiRuzza v. County…