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LLUBERES v. UNCOMMON PRODUCTIONS, LLC

No. 10-2082.

663 F.3d 6 (2011)

Felipe Vicini LLUBERES and Juan Vicini Lluberes, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNCOMMON PRODUCTIONS, LLC, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 23, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan A. Lukey , with whom Maria G. Arlotto and Ropes & Gray, LLP were on brief, for appellants.

Elizabeth C. Koch , with whom Thomas Curley , Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, Jonathan M. Albano and Bingham McCutchen LLP were on brief, for appellees.

Before HOWARD, SELYA and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

This case raises issues of First Amendment law. At the center of the dispute is The Price of Sugar, a documentary film released in 2007 by film company Uncommon Productions, LLC, and its principal William M. Haney, III. The film depicts the treatment of Haitian laborers on sugarcane plantations in the Dominican Republic. It refers by name to brothers Felipe and Juan Vicini Lluberes, senior executives of a family conglomerate that owns...

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