Sarah Deutsch is an American attorney

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 who currently serves as vice president

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 and associate general counsel

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 of the telecommunications company Verizon Communications

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. She was born in Brooklyn

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, New York

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Deutsch gained media attention for representing Verizon in the copyright

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 case RIAA v. Verizon, in which the Recording Industry Association of America

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 obtained a subpoena

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 demanding Verizon to disclose the identity of several subscribers who were allegedly engaged in illegal P2P

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 file-sharing.

In the end, the D.C. Circuit Court

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 ruled in favor of Verizon. The decision was authored by Chief Judge Douglas Ginsburg.