G&G Sues N.Y. Restaurant for Piracy of 2021 Middleweight Boxing Match

Dos Amigos restaurant, Middletown, New York, pirated the Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant middleweight championship fight Nov. 6, 2021, said G&G Closed Circuits Events, which had exclusive nationwide commercial distribution rights to the event, in a Tuesday complaint (docket 7:23-cv-03868) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in White Plains. G&G claims two violations of the Communications Act and seeks statutory damages of $110,000 for unauthorized reception and exhibition of the fight and $60,000 for unauthorized receipt of programming over a cable system, plus attorneys’ fees and legal costs.