Mealey's (May 7, 2018, 12:20 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 4 sided with a songwriter whose copyright infringement claims against Sony Corporation of America were dismissed with prejudice because the dismissal was premised on findings that the case was subject to mandatory arbitration, and not a finding of failure to state a claim (Luis Adrian Cortes-Ramos v. Sony Corporation of America, et al., No. 16-2441, 1st Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 11718)....