LLUBERES v. UNCOMMON PRODUCTIONS, LLC

Civil Action No. 07-11623-DPW.

740 F.Supp.2d 207 (2010)

Felipe Vicini LLUBERES and Juan Vicini Lluberes, Plaintiffs, v. UNCOMMON PRODUCTIONS, LLC, and William Haney Iii, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

August 16, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin G. Chew , Nigel Lance Wilkinson , Read K. McCaffrey , Stephen Diaz Gavin , Patton Boggs LLP, Washington, DC, Jessica Block , Block & Roos LLP, Boston, MA, for Plaintiffs.

Elizabeth C. Koch , John Bernard O'Keefe , Thomas Curley , Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP, Washington, DC, Jonathan M. Albano , Lisa E. Kirby , Bingham McCutchen LLP, Boston, MA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DOUGLAS P. WOODLOCK, District Judge.

In 2007, a documentary titled The Price of Sugar was released and distributed by the Defendants, Uncommon Productions, LLC and William Haney III, chronicling the working conditions of Haitian laborers on sugarcane plantations in the Dominican Republic. The film refers by name to the Plaintiffs, Felipe and Juan Vicini Lluberes (collectively, the "Vicinis"), who are executives in a family...

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