CURB v. MCA RECORDS, INC.

Nos. 3:93-0215, 3:93-0420.

898 F.Supp. 586 (1995)

Mike CURB d/b/a Curb Music Company, and Curb Records, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, Plaintiff, v. MCA RECORDS, INC., a California Corporation, Defendant. MCA RECORDS, INC., Plaintiff, v. Mike CURB d/b/a Curb Music Company, and Curb Records, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

September 28, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aubrey B. Harwell, Ronald G. Harris, George H. Cate, III, Neal & Harwell, Nashville, TN, William Howard Tate, Gracey, Ruth, Howard, Tate & Sowell, Nashville, TN, Joel R. Strote, Woodland Hills, CA, Robert L. Sullivan, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Nashville, TN, for Mike Curb in No. 3:93-0215.

Philip Michael Kirkpatrick, Alan T. Fister, Stewart, Estes & Donnell, Nashville, TN, Stephen F. Moeller, Donald S. Engel, Engel & Engel, Los Angeles, CA, for MCA Records, Inc.

Aubrey B. Harwell, Ronald G. Harris, Neal & Harwell, Nashville, TN, Joel R. Strote, Woodland Hills, CA, Marc Marmaro, Elizabeth Barrowman, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, Los Angeles, CA, Robert L. Sullivan, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Nashville, TN, for Curb Music Co. in No. 3:93-0420.

Joel R. Strote, Woodland Hills, CA, Marc Marmaro, Elizabeth Barrowman, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, Los Angeles, CA, for Does 1 Through 10.


MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

WISEMAN, District Judge.

This dispute between Mike Curb d/b/a Curb Music Co. and MCA Records, Inc., arises out of a joint venture between the parties gone sour. MCA has moved for partial summary judgment on a question involving ownership of several master recordings produced by the musical duo, "The Judds." Curb has moved for judgment on the pleadings or, in the alternative, summary judgment on MCA's counterclaim that Curb infringed...

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