New York Judge Shuts Down a SAD Scheme TRO Request–CJB Global v. Schedule A Defendants

This SAD Scheme case ended up before Judge Buchwald, who shreds it. Judge Buchwald recaps the scheme’s fundamental corruptness: if all of plaintiff’s requested ex parte relief were to be granted, plaintiff would at the outset be entitled to broad discovery with serious consequences to defendants. Plaintiff would first be authorized to serve expedited discovery on the Financial Institutions, who would be obligated to provide all known e-mail addresses and mailing addresses for defendants, as well as information relating to defendants’ assets and accounts “regardless of the hosting platform or institution.” Having received that information, and still without notice to any defendant, plaintiff could then freeze the assets maintained in any of the accounts identified through expedited discovery of 100 different international defendants. Acknowledging that plaintiff’s request for an asset restraint is in no way cabined only to accounts through which defendants sell the allegedly infringing…