(As trial draws near, we continue in our tradition of transparency. Below are some observations from Joel. –DBR)
The law offices of Feinberg & Kamholtz are on the 6th floor of a 22-story granite and glass modern office building.
Nesson arrives and we make our way to the conference room. Feinberg and Kamholtz have a professional appearance [...]
By Mark Kerzner at http://top8corp.blogspot.com/2009/06/court-orders-jammie-thomas-to-pay-riaa.html.
In a surprise decision, the jury imposed damages against Thomas-Rasset, who was originally accused of sharing more than 1,700 songs, at a whopping $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she was ultimately found guilty of illegally sharing. One can find an account on CNET news here. There is also a [...]
By chance, I meet Isaac on the T to the courthouse. We aren’t overly enthusiastic– the weather is bleak and I am exhausted from commencement ceremonies the day before.
Seen from the parking lot, the courthouse is not welcoming. The facade is a brick wall. I feel like we’re tiny eggs trying to smash the brick [...]
Posted by Debbie Rosenbaum
As JFB team’s student publicity person, I spend a lot of time explaining what other people are doing and describing the collective experience of being part of this unique effort. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about yesterday’s hearing from my perspective.
For an aspiring lawyer like me, yesterday was truly [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Many of the people being sued by the recording industry are people who don’t have much money. You are probably familiar with the story of Brittany Kruger, who offered to pay $2,000, but was told that the settlement figure of $8,100 was not negotiable. Brittany writes:
“I make about $4,500 in a YEAR working at Dairy [...]
Guest written and posted by Jason Harrow, 1L at HLS.
The New Yorker’s longtime baseball writer Roger Angell once remarked that “the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring” is a “capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives.” As a first-year law student, it can sometimes seem that [...]