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 [...]
Posted by DBR on behalf of Joel’s mom
P2Pnet broke this first: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/20155
Joel’s mom e-mailed me with the following email (DBR: hyperlinks inserted by me):
Joel contacted me with the information about Brittany’s case and my presentation at the ABA’s Section of Administration Law and Regulatory Practice midyear meeting on February 13, 2009. I was [...]
The audio of the this morning’s oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, on the subject of whether an oral argument in the District Court can be streamed online, is now available online at http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/audio/09-1090.mp3.
[update: Thanks to user Alter_Fritz for posting this with louder audio: available at: http://rapidshare.com/files/219297423/09-1090_edited.mp3]
The RIAA was [...]