Posing questions for the Supreme Court
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 [...]
Hearing and Trial Dates
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 [...]
Raising awareness with Joel’s mom
Today, I spent the day with Joel’s parents at the annual Mayfair in Harvard Square . Judie, Joel’s mom, brought her harp to help raise awareness and money that we desperately need for the case. The Harvard Square Business Association was nice enough to let us have a small space without paying the participation fee [...]
Joel’s Mom in Harvard Square!
As you can imagine, Joel and his family are deeply involved in his case. What you may not know is that music is fundamental to Joel’s family: his mom is a professional harpist!
Joel’s mom has decided to come to Cambridge tomorrow (May 3rd) to play her harp at Harvard Square’s annual May Fair. We’ll be [...]
Request for Rule Change Denied
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 [...]
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
joel’s story goes international
Read the story here.
media roundup
Some recent reading care of supporter Mark Rosedale.
New wrinkle in SONY v. Tenenbaum case: it appears that the Judicial Council of the 1st Cir has banned televising http://www.uslaw.com/library/Copyright_Law/New_wrinkle_SONY_v_Tenenbaum_case_appears_Judicial_Council_1st_Cir_ban.php?item=390876
First Circuit Webcasting Argument Stems From Long History of Rules on Cameras in Courts http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2009/first-circuit-webcasting-argument-stems-from-long-history-rules-cameras-courts
Court Webcasts, Securing Your Internet Privacy http://beatcrave.com/2009-04-09/court-webcasts-securing-your-internet-privacy/
First Circuit Rejects District [...]
First Circuit Oral Hearings now online
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 [...]