Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
Time is on my side
Always a blessing to witness Professor Charlie Nesson at his oratorical heights.
At 2:30 today we passed our next mile marker on the highway to trial. My mom and I met with Debbie in front of the stunning Moakley courthouse, (my deepest compliments to Jung Brannen associates) and waiting. [...]
Responding to Judge Gertner’s proposed schedule, we filed a motion to stay on Monday. We posed questions for the Supreme Court to review, and asked that all public proceedings be postponed until the Supreme Court has an opportunity to act on the petition.
In our petition, we presented the following questions:
1. Are federal courts constitutionally obligated [...]
With only a few days are left before Joel’s hearing on June 5, Judge Nancy Gertner issued an order on May 28 setting Joel’s trial for July 20. “Despite the postponements resulting from the webcast appeal, the Court intends to move quickly to trial in this case,” Judge Gertner writes. The trial will be a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Forethought: The fact that Judge Wolf’s opinion was emailed and that the hearing itself was audiocast only attest to the pervasive nature of the internet, a nature which we hope the legal system will recognize as having been artificially constrained.
NESSON’S TEAM WILL SEEK STAY AFTER FIRST CIRCUIT RULING AGAINST WEBCAST & FEDERAL JUDGES DENY [...]
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
Part 3 featuring Prof. Nesson. Also see part 1, part 2, and part 4
Featuring Jonathan Sherman for CVN. Also see part one with Daniel Cloherty for the plaintiffs, part three with Prof. Nesson, and part 4 with Cloherty’s rebuttal.
By guest writer Jason Harrow, 1L at Harvard Law School, who attended the First Circuit Oral Hearings. See his initial post here.
Joel’s brief before the First Circuit stated that “public access to the courtroom is a power and responsibility of the law.” This should be uncontroversial; after all, the Sixth Amendment makes explicit that “the [...]