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Nyet: Board Finds Insufficient Evidence to Grant Summary Judgment on SOL Grounds

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.06.16

In Kellogg Brown & Root Servs., Inc. (June 16, 2016), the ASBCA denied KBR’s motion for summary judgment regarding two government demands for repayment of alleged overcharges that KBR argued were barred by the CDA’s six-year statute of limitations. Citing Sikorsky, the board held that, even though KBR had presented numerous documents to show that the government was made aware of its challenged practices more than six years before the final decisions, the documents themselves (without more) failed to establish undisputed material facts sufficient to meet the post-Sikorsky burden of proof in light of the government’s opposing evidence.

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Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.01.26

Supreme Court Rejects “Mere Knowledge” Standard for Contributory Copyright Infringement in Cox v. Sony, Reverses $1 Billion Judgment Against Cox

On March 25, 2026, in Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a $1 billion verdict against Cox. The judgment was the result of a jury trial in which Sony claimed that Cox was liable for contributory copyright infringement because it knew that its customers were using its service to infringe yet did not respond with sufficient diligence to prevent that infringement....