ShareBelow is a summariy of the case funding recommendations made by NAR's Legal Action Committee, which were subsequently approved by the Board of Directors at the 2018 REALTORS® Legislative Meetings and Trade Expo, held in Washington, D.C. during May 2018.
NAR provided funding of $340,000 in one case as follows:
C.A.R. v. PDFfiller
CAR sued PDFfiller and its principals for copyright infringement based on the fact that PDFfiller’s website includes CAR’s copyrighted real estate transaction forms without CAR’s authorization, and further that PDFfiller unlocked CAR’s forms to allow users to edit the forms’ contents. In response, PDFfiller filed an antitrust-based counterclaim against CAR and its subsidiaries, REBS and zipLogix, asserting that they engaged in an unlawful tying arrangement by requiring that CAR members exclusively use zipLogix to complete the CAR forms. CAR filed a motion to dismiss, which was denied because PDFfiller’s counterclaim entails questions of fact.
Following the meeting, the parties dismissed the case with prejudice by mutual agreement and without admission of liability.