Dallas Buyers Club LLC v Does 1-7

Filing 10

DECISION AND ORDER signed by Judge Lynn Adelman on 7/18/14 granting 8 Motion to Quash. (cc: all counsel, via USPS to Todd Flahavan) (dm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, LLC,
Plaintiff,
v.

Case No. 14-C-0359

JOHN DOES,
Defendants.

DECISION AND ORDER
This is an action for copyright infringement in which the plaintiff alleges that several
unknown individuals illegally copied the motion picture The Dallas Buyers Club. Shortly
after filing the complaint, the plaintiff filed a motion to serve a subpoena on the defendants’
Internet service providers prior to the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f) conference in
order to obtain the defendants’ names and addresses. I granted that motion. Recently,
one of the defendants filed a motion to quash the subpoena that plaintiff served on his
service provider. In filing the motion to quash, the defendant disclosed his name and
address, which is the only information that I allowed the plaintiff to obtain through use of
the subpoenas.1 Thus, the plaintiff now has all the information it needs to serve the
defendant with process. The motion to quash will be granted.
THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the defendant’s motion to quash is GRANTED.

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It appears that the subpoena the plaintiff served on the Internet service provider
asks for information other than the defendant’s name and address. However, I did not
grant plaintiff permission to request this additional information.

Dated at Milwaukee, Wisconsin this 18th day of July, 2014.
s/ Lynn Adelman
_____________________________
LYNN ADELMAN
District Judge

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