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 [...]
Posted by Joel Tenenbaum
With all the strangeness surrounding the case, I’ve been asked, “Joel, wouldn’t you be happier with more ..um… conventional representation?
Someone who doesn’t post everything to his blog?” My answers:
Q: What do you think of Nesson as a lawyer?
A: It’s really amazing the reactions he manages to elicit. People get a few sprinkles [...]
Dear Professor Nesson,
I just want to say how
crazy and smart
your strategy is on the tenenbaum case. I was
moved
by your summary to Fern -
it is so simple, but only if you are not a copyright lawyer.
luckily in the jury ordenary people sit,
dazed and confused and enraged and humiliated and empowered,
with whom you [...]
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From Professor Nesson’s blog:
This is evidence that law school may teach you what process is, but not how it is used. Or if it is used.
This [...]
Lory Lybeck of Lybeck Murphy, LLP sent the following e-mail to Prof. Nesson on Sunday, March 22, 2009.
Professor Nesson:
After reading the unfortunate response from the DOJ I have a few random thoughts. First-off, the financial bailout of a select few of the corporate financial giants makes it easier to utter the “T” trillion word [...]