Judge Denies Default vs. 2 Defendants for Selling Unlicensed DVDs Online

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra for Southern Florida in West Palm Beach signed an order Monday (docket 9:23-cv-80008) denying without prejudice the Redoak Communications motions for default judgment against defendants Ronin Flix and Grindhouse Video for unlawfully selling unlicensed DVD and Blu-ray copies online of the 1981 horror film Just Before Dawn (see 2301060023). Redoak told the court in a March 22 evidentiary hearing it seeks $150,000 in statutory damages from each defendant but provided no evidence of willful infringement either at the hearing or in a supplemental brief, said the order. The court can’t consider Redoak’s motions without either holding another evidentiary hearing or permitting Redoak to submit evidence to support the facts it alleges, it said.