Suit Pants Suit Dismissed
p2pnet.net news view:- In a relief to everyone everywhere except the plaintiff, Judge Roy J. Pearson, the $67 million lawsuit over the lost pair of suit pants was today dismissed by a Washington judge.
Until the verdict comes in on Conrad Black and Paris Hilton gets out of jail, this could generate a brief window of interesting legal coverage in the USA.
Hopefully, the immigrant victims of this monstrous abuse of the litigation system will get some redress by way of costs or otherwise.
Too bad there isn’t sufficient main stream media coverage of the 20,000 plus other outrageous statutory damage law suits in the USA filed by the RIAA over allegedly illegal downloading and file sharing – where the harm done , if any, astronomically exceeds any provable actual damage to the record companies.
Howard Knopf – Excess Copyright
[Knopf is an Ottawa-based copyright lawyer who's been lead counsel on legal challenges both at the Copyright Board and in the Courts against the excesses of the music industry establishment. He's regularly quoted in the mainstream media and acted against the CRIA in the file sharing litigation, and continues to act against the CPCC, in which the CRIA is still a major stakeholder, on the levy front.]
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June 26th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Suing for anything more than $500 is greed. Half a million would have been stupidity. $46-54 million is NOT in touch with reality.
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