Mealey's (September 28, 2017, 4:08 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In a Sept. 21 appellee brief, a film director and his attorney ask the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm a trial court’s vacating of a sanctions award against them because it was based on the appeals court’s prior finding that no tortious interference occurred in a copyright infringement dispute over a short film (16 Casa Duse LLC v. Alex Merkin, et al., No. 17-0625, 2nd Cir.)....