A federal judge in Las Vegas today issued a potentially devastating ruling against copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC, finding it doesn't have standing to sue over Las Vegas Review-Journal stories, that it has misled the court and threatening to impose sanctions against Righthaven. Clayton Cramer comments:
"Judge Hunt did not just dismiss Righthaven's suit; he gave them two weeks to respond as to why they should not be sanctioned by the court and held liable for the legal fees of Democratic Underground. My hope is that once this is settled, there will be a massive dogpile of all the people that were intimidated into settling out of court with Righthaven, and the net effect will be both immediate bankruptcy for Righthaven, and perhaps the destruction of Stephens Media as well."
#4
Maybe Fred can recover costs? Righthaven basically blackmailed blogging sites into paying money for Righthaven to go away under the guise of copyright law violation. Whatever happens to them still won't serve justice.
#7
fence rail, tar, feathers and the bum's rush out of town. I'm reminded of the old joke "What's 200 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? Answer: A good start."
#3
It's only the left and the PC-blinded idiots who think the islamists play by the rules. They use our First Amendment to slip in Sharia, coercion, and violence. It will be interesting to see what happens when they are prosecuted under some of the newly passed State anti-Sharia and terrorism laws. The First Amendment does not guarantee the right to engage in terrorist behavior--only free speech and the right to practice religion freely. The First Amendment is not a suicide pact with jihadists.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
