Record Labels, Altice Pick Retired Magistrate Judge as Mediator
BMG Rights Management and its co-plaintiff record labels conferred with defendant Altice USA and agreed on the choice of former U.S. Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal of Signature Resolution in Los Angeles to oversee mediation in their contributory infringement dispute, said…
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their notice Thursday (docket 2:22-cv-00471) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Marshall. Segal was a magistrate judge for 18 years in the Central District of California before retiring in 2020, per her LinkedIn bio. The music companies allege Altice ignored the rampant copyright infringement of its high-speed internet subscribers, and Altice moved to dismiss their complaint, asserting it can't be expected to police the internet (see 2303140008).