Megaupload Executives Cite 6th Circuit Rulings To Support Certiorari Petition

Mealey's (September 29, 2017, 10:47 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Sept. 1 supplemental brief further supporting their petition for certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court, former executives of the now-defunct file-sharing service Megaupload point to two recent fugitive disentitlement of assets rulings by the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that they say conflict with the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling against them in the present criminal copyright suit, deepening an already existing circuit split on the matter (Finn Batato, et al. v. United States, No. 16-1206, U.S. Sup.)....