Cox Appealing District Court Denial of Relief from $1B Copyright Damages Award

Cox Communications is appealing a U.S. District Court in Alexandria order last month denying two Cox motions for relief from judgment on the 2019 $1 billion damages award given to music labels charging it with contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, the ISP said Friday in a docket 1:18-cv-00950 notice of appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In the order, District Judge Liam O'Grady found "without merit" Cox's arguments that evidence in similar litigation involving Charter Communications showed the evidence against Cox to be unreliable and inadmissible. Seeing the Charter litigation, Cox "may well be rethinking and reevaluating their previous trial strategies, [but it] received a full and fair trial here," O'Grady wrote, calling the Charter evidence immaterial to Cox's case.