BRIDGEPORT MUSIC, INC. v. UNIVERSAL-MCA MUSIC PUB.

Nos. 08-5254, 08-5255, 08-5256, 08-5257, 08-5258, 08-5259, 08-5260, 08-5261, 08-5262, 08-5263, 08-5264, 08-5265, 08-5266, 08-5267, 08-5268, 08-5269, 08-5270, 08-5271, 08-5272, 08-5273.

583 F.3d 948 (2009)

BRIDGEPORT MUSIC, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNIVERSAL-MCA MUSIC PUBLISHING, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: October 21, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Russell J. Frackman, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Appellants. Richard S. Busch, King & Ballow, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Russell J. Frackman, Marc E. Mayer, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Los Angeles, California, Philip M. Kirkpatrick, Dickinson Wright, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Richard S. Busch, King & Ballow, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: MARTIN, GUY, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.

Ten Universal-affiliated defendants, all record and music publishing companies, have appealed a second time from the district court's decision to deny the defendants' request that attorney fees be imposed as a condition of granting plaintiffs' motions to voluntarily dismiss without prejudice the twenty cases at issue pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(2). We remanded the matter after the first consolidated appeal "for...

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