MONGE v. MAYA MAGAZINES, INC.

Nos. 10-56710, 11-55483.

688 F.3d 1164 (2012)

Noelia Lorenzo MONGE, an individual; Jorge Reynoso, an individual, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MAYA MAGAZINES, INC., a Florida Corporation; Maya Publishing Group, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, Defendants-Appellees. Noelia Lorenzo Monge, an individual; Jorge Reynoso, an individual, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Maya Magazines, Inc., a Florida Corporation; Maya Publishing Group, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 14, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Kuznetsky (argued), Kuznetsky Law Group, P.C., Universal City, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

D. Fernando Bobadilla (argued), The Bobadilla Law Firm, Miami, FL; Angela C. Agrusa and Allen P. Lohse , Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Opinion by Judge McKEOWN; Dissent by Judge MILAN D. SMITH, JR.


OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal reads like a telenovela, a Spanish soap opera. It pits music celebrities, who make money by promoting themselves, against a gossip magazine, that makes money by publishing celebrity photographs, with a paparazzo, who apparently stole the disputed pictures, stuck in the middle. Noelia Lorenzo Monge and Jorge Reynoso ("the couple"), Latin American celebrities, claim that Maya Magazines, Inc. and Maya Publishing Group...

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