Stephen Cummings v. Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

I. INTRODUCTION

17 On May 15, 2020, Plaintiff Stephen Cummings filed the instant suit. On July 18 13, 2020, the Court held a telephonic hearing on several motions in this matter (“July 19 Hearing”). Cummings impermissibly called into the telephonic hearing on a cellular 20 telephone, which resulted in Cummings’s garbled transmission. As the Court had 21 difficulty hearing Cummings despite specific instructions to appear telephonically 22 only on a landline and sufficient notice of the hearing, the Court considered the 23 parties’ arguments presented in the written briefs. Fed. R. Civ. P. 78; L.R. 7-15.1 24 For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss. 25 (Mot. to Dismiss by James Cameron, Lightstorm Entertainment, Inc., Paramount 26 Home Entertainment, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., Twentieth Century Fox Film

28 1 At the July Hearing, the Court also denied the Motion to deem Cummings a vexatious litigant. (ECF No. 17.) 1 Corp., (collectively, “Cameron Group”) (“Cameron Group Mot.”), ECF No. 20; Mot. 2 to Dismiss by Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (“Dolby”) (“Dolby Mot.”), ECF No. 29; Mot. 3 to Dismiss by Sony Pictures…