​Another day, another twist in the seemingly never-ending legal drama swirling around Aereo, the startup service that lets you stream local TV to tablets and smartphones.

U.S. Distrtict Court Judge Dale A. Kimball on Tuesday granted the company a 14-day temporary stay of his ruling last week blocking the service in six Rocky Mountain states, while the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ponders Aereo’s emergency motion to issue it’s own stay of Kimball’s ruling.

The move means that Aereo is still alive, for now, in the six states that comprise the 10th Circuit, with Kimball finding “some benefit in allowing Aereo’s customers uninterrupted service pending the Tenth Circuit’s decision on an emergency motion to stay.”

Each of the Big Four networks have sued to put a stop to Aereo, which rents out a small antenna to users that transmits broadcast television to multiple devices such as smartphones.

The broadcasters say the IAC-backed startup is illegally retransmitting television; Aereo says it is simply renting remote antennas.

The broadcasters saw Kimball’s ruling last week as a big win in the ongoing legal drama, and Kimball’s decision Tuesday indicates he still thinks they will prevail before the Supreme Court.

“While Aereo’s paying customers benefit from Aereo’s infringement in the form of lower subscription rates, the court assumes that they are mostly unaware of whether Aereo is abiding by governing copyright laws and paying the appropriate licensing fees to engage in such business. This confusion in the marketplace is part of the intangible harms to Plaintiffs. The court also recognizes that harms are accruing to Plaintiffs every day and enforcement of the copyright laws is a clear public benefit to the public as a whole,” Kimball wrote Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has set an April 22 date for oral arguments in the case, with a decision expected by June.

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Brief Take: Tuesday’s ruling keeps Aereo alive, for now, in the six Rocky Mountain states of the Tenth Circuit. But the 10th Circuit could quickly pour cold water on their plans.

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