Judge Issues Administrative Order in Innovative Sports v. Carpio Ciccia

Innovative Sports Management, Inc. sued Carpio Ciccia and unnamed co-defendants in a case docketed as 26-cv-03147, filed in 2026. No judge has been assigned yet.

The only docket activity on record is an April 19, 2026 in-chambers order — a procedural directive with no hearing held.

The substance of that order is not public. In-chambers directives of this kind typically address early administrative matters: service deadlines, scheduling, or a request for jurisdictional briefing. Nothing in the record yet signals which direction the court is leaning on any substantive issue.

Innovative Sports Management is a company that holds broadcast licensing rights — typically for foreign soccer matches — and sues commercial establishments it claims aired those matches without a license.

The pattern is familiar in federal courts: a rights holder, a bar or restaurant as defendant, and claims under the Federal Communications Act or the Copyright Act. Whether that is the theory here has not been confirmed by any filed pleading in the public record.

The defendants, Carpio Ciccia et al., have not yet appeared on the docket in any visible way. No answer, no motion to dismiss, no counsel entry. That is not unusual this early, but it means there is no defense theory on record to assess.

With no judge assigned and only one procedural order filed, this case is at its earliest possible stage. The next moves — service confirmation, an initial scheduling conference, or a default motion if defendants do not appear — will define whether this resolves quickly or becomes contested.