The Connection between Nesson and the Thomas lawsuit
Since the beginning, we have noted that Joel’s lawsuit will be only the second of its kind to be tried by a jury — the first, of course, being the Jammie Thomas case. Those that follow the RIAA’s litigation campaign know that Jammie Thomas was initially found liable and ordered to pay $222,000 in damages [...]
Updates on your most FAQs
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum
What’s the status on the Joel Fights Back case? Right now, we are awaiting a date for the status hearing in Judge Gertner’s courtroom. Plaintiffs and our team have agreed to a June 12 option, but we’re waiting to see if there is room on the court’s calendar.
Will it be webcast? As [...]
A snippet of our daily tasks
Yes, there is a lot of email to go through.
Being documented
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Levis has been documenting some of our activities. Yesterday, the documentary team had a lengthy interview with Prof. Nesson, attended one of his classes, and met up with a few of the students on the team. The filming crew also spent an entire day with Joel and interviewed his mother. Here [...]
First Circuit Hearing- Part 4
Final part with Danial Cloherty’s rebuttal. Also see parts 1 (Cloherty), 2 (Sherman), and 3 (Nesson), which have been updated with minor edits. Thanks to Alter_Fritz for the enhanced audio! -yvette
Written on April 24, 2009 | Posted in About Us, Joel's Case, News, anecdotes, featured, videos | 3 Comments
First Circuit Slideshow-Part 3
Part 3 featuring Prof. Nesson. Also see part 1, part 2, and part 4
joel’s story goes international
Read the story here.
Getting the News
We were sitting in Prof. Nesson’s office for one of our regular meetings when we received news about the First Circuit ruling. All of us had our laptops with us, and within seconds, we were sharing a link to the ruling. Prof. Nesson suddenly stood up and left the room– I wondered if he was [...]
The group
For my first post I just wanted to give a brief description of what it’s like to be working on the project. While several members of the group started working on the case or at least hearing about it in Professor Nesson’s CyberOne class, I joined the case relatively late in February. It was [...]