Posts Tagged ‘lawsuits’
We take you to a meeting of the RIAA
From joyoftech.com:
Already at ludicrous speed, the RIAA goes a bit faster
Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing points out that the RIAA’s ludicrous stance on copying CDs for personal use is actually even more ludicrous in light of what they were saying just months ago:
The record companies, my clients, have said, for some time now, and it’s been on their Website for some time now, that it’s perfectly [...]
RIAA has achieved ludicrous speed
In its efforts to bring about the overthrow of copyright protection by adopting arguments more ridiculous than the Bush Administration’s attempts to exclude Dick Cheney from the executive branch, the RIAA is now arguing that it is illegal for you to transfer music from a CD you purchase to your computer for your own, personal [...]
Debt collector tells debt buyers not to sue
Debt collection attorney Gary Nitzkin in Michigan says “[m]y best advice to debt buyers . . . DON’T DO IT.” Don’t sue, in other words. Why? Pretty much for the reasons I have addressed here, plus a few more:
Debt buyers don’t have the documentation they need to prove their case;
Other collection agencies already failed to [...]
Definitions: “debt buyer” and “debt buyer lawsuit”
A debt buyer is a person or company that owns a consumer debt but is not the original creditor. A debt buyer lawsuit is a lawsuit brought by a debt buyer to collect a consumer debt from a consumer.
Costs of litigation in Minnesota
In Hennepin County, Minnesota, it costs $252 for both parties in a lawsuit (in other words, the plaintiff pays $252 to file a complaint, and the defendant pays $252 to file an answer).
If either party wants a jury, they must pay an additional $75. (Either a judge or jury may decide questions of fact.)
Filing fees [...]
Juries bad at judging guilt and innocence?
The answer is yes, according to Bruce Spencer, professor of statistics at Northwestern University. Spencer purports to arrive at the accuracy of jury verdicts (PDF link) by comparing the jury verdict to a judge’s opinion of the correct answer. Spencer then does a lot of fancy math and flings about some casual assumptions like juries [...]
CNN: “Court tosses ‘Friends’ lawsuit”
Link to article.
The California Supreme Court today decided that profanity and “sexually course and vulgar language” in the workplace is not automatically grounds for a sexual harassment lawsuit if not directed at a particular employee.
From the article:
“The record discloses that most of the sexually coarse and vulgar language at issue did not involve and was [...]
