Cox Seeking New Copyright Infringement Trial

The $1 billion copyright infringement jury verdict against Cox Communications is "grossly excessive" given statutory damages elsewhere, and whatever profit Cox got from infringement is divorced from the supposed multibillion-dollar profit on which plaintiffs urged the jury to base its award. So said Cox's memorandum of law in support of its motion for remittitur or a new trial (see 2002030066) in docket 18-cv-00950 and in Pacer. It was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Counsel for the music label plaintiffs didn't comment.