| Photographer Beats
Real Estate Agents By Default For $55000
Lawyer at $350 an Hour
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- The
Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 31 – Photographer Brian
Totin sued real estate agents
Giancarlo Zabaleta and Ahmed
Khalil for stealing his photos
to market apartments.
The defendants
never showed up.
On July 31 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Katherine Polk Failla
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
Judge
Failla was of the mind to
grant default judgment but to
her credit asked a lo to
questions. How did Totin value
his photographs?
He calculated it
off the commissions the real
estate agents sought and
obtained, and indicia of bad
faith like taking the
watermark off the
photos.
Judge Failla
asked Totin's counsel Nicholas
Netram Loaknauth why he
charged $350 an hour - he said
it's his rate, he graduated
from Albany and specializes in
intellectual property.
Judge Failla told
him to order the transcript,
so that those defaulting could
one day read it.
She awarded the
photographer $55,040 and the
lawyer his requested $350 an
hour.
The case is Totin
v. LG
Fairmont, Inc.
et al., 19-cv-9701
(Failla)
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