Gurumurthy Kalyanaram on Lawsuits and Policies: the US Supreme Court’s Position on Aereo’s New Broadcast Technology

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on lawsuits and policies and in this brief particularly on the US Supreme Court’s ruling on Aereo’s New Broadcast Technology in a lawsuit filed by the major broadcasting companies.

Aereo’s used satellite technology and broadcast TV signals for free, and the broadcasting companies filed a lawsuit arguing that Aereo was obligated to pay licensing fees to the broadcasting companies. While Aereo found a sympathetic audience in the Second Circuit Appellate Court, the US Supreme Court ruled against Aereo.

Aereo’s basic technology is as follows.  Aereo uses countless individual antennas to grab broadcast TV signals out of the air for free, and then sell access to those signals to consumers over the Internet. With the service, you could record the CBS Evening News and play it back to yourself online as if you were taping it with a DVR.

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, former and former professor NYIT and UT Dallas and Expert Witness - Reports on The Lawsuits against Union Carbide (US) and British Petroleum (UK)

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor, and expert witness, Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on the two similar lawsuits but with dramatically different adjudications.

Two industrial disasters have brought two different outcomes in the US courts.

First, let us review the Clean Water Act lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice and others against British Petroleum (BP) for liabilities in the explosion of Deepwater Horizon and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.

Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, Expert Witness and Former Professor NYIT and UT Dallas

Reports on Amicus Curiae Briefs in US Supreme Court

Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, Expert Witness and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on the role of amicus curiae briefs filed in support of the plaintiffs and/or defendants in lawsuits in US Supreme Court.

An amicus curiae (literally "friend of the court") is an individual who is not a party to a lawsuit but who offers information that is relevant to the lawsuit. The presentation of information to the Court may take the form of legal opinion, testimony or learned treatise (the amicus brief) and is a way to introduce concerns ensuring that the possibly broad legal effects of a court decision will not depend solely on the parties directly involved in the case. The decision on whether to admit the information lies at the discretion of the court.  The most popular mode of presentation is a brief.

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, Expert Witness and Former Professor NYIT and UT Dallas

Reports on the Question Is Harsh Criticism of a Commission Headed by an Indian Supreme Court Justice a Reasonable Basis for Contempt Lawsuit against the Critic?

Dr Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Former Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor and expert witness and Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on the Indian Supreme Court Holding on Contempt Lawsuit.

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram – Reports on Expert Witness Testimony in a False Claims Act/ qui tam Lawsuit

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Former Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on his expert witness testimony in a False Claims Act/qui tam lawsuit based upon my expert witness testimony, the US government decided to intervene in a qui tam lawsuit against two private educational entities.

The background to the lawsuit is as follows. Two educational entities had collaborated and designed an on-line educational program. According to the complaint, the institutes were purportedly offering degrees without completion of the requisite requirements, employing unqualified faculty and using inadequate facilities. The on-line educational program was also purportedly engaged in commissions-based student recruitment process.

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Reports on the Vote to Authorize Lawsuit against President Barack Obama

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Former Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on the vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 30, 2014 authorizing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram Lawsuit

In a somewhat historic but also development, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on June 30, 2014 to authorize Speaker John Boehner to file a lawsuit against President Obama for his abuse of authority. The vote was completely partisan – all the Republicans except five of them voting to authorize such a lawsuit and all the democrats voting against such a plan. So, it will essentially be Republicans suing President Obama, not so much the U.S. House of Representatives. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram Lawsuit

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Reports on Interpretation of Agreements and Statutes

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Former Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on important US Supreme Court decisions on interpretation of agreements and statutes. Here is an executive summary of these decisions.Gurumurthy Kalyanaram Lawsuit

Ruling in several lawsuits, the Supreme Court has held in its very recent decisionsthe words of any agreement or statute must be interpreted based upon their ordinary (dictionary) meaning, to give them effect. See Law v. Siegel, 134 S.Ct. 1188, 1195 (2014); Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp., 134 S.Ct. 870, 876-877 (2014). Gurumurthy Kalyanaram Lawsuit