Court Rejects Righthaven's Attempt To Stall About Paying Legal Fees

from the on-the-hook dept

Wed, Oct 19th 2011 7:26pm — Mike Masnick

We recently wrote about Righthaven trying to get the appeals court to drop the requirement that it put up a $34k bond to cover legal fees owed in the Hoehn case, as it argued it needed the money for its other cases. The appeals court didn't buy the argument. As you can see below, it denied the "emergency motion" with no real commentary, other than to point to a few previous cases. So, Righthaven now just has a short period of time to find $34k to put up for bond, or it may expose itself to contempt charges or other sanctions.

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Filed Under: hoehn, legal fees, randazza, shawn mangano
Companies: righthaven

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Bill W (profile), 19 Oct 2011 @ 7:47pm

Nice
I love a good smackdown administered to slimeballs!
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BearGriz72 (profile), 19 Oct 2011 @ 7:53pm

Wow...
Short sweet and to the point.

NO
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G Thompson (profile), 19 Oct 2011 @ 8:26pm

Why do I now have this uncontrolled urge to snicker laugh and guffaw like Mutley?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSTOHa4Im4

Oh that's right because they deserve it ;)
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Anonymous Coward, 19 Oct 2011 @ 8:38pm

Pirate court is being a pirate right now and they are stealing from those in the high seas. and Pirate Mike supports them too. but don't worry, the government will crack down on this intellectual robbery and stop this insane theft that's happening in the wild wild west of wild piracy land. and a higher court will show them that they can't break the law and that this is wrong. Politicians are not going to let the pirates get away with this for long either, they will stop this massive criminal behavior that the entire population seems to think is OK. They will let the entire disagreeing population know that this is not OK through more legislation and greater punishments and that will make everyone stop thinking piracy is OK.
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- Markus Hopkins (profile), 19 Oct 2011 @ 9:07pm
  
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  Thank you, Ozymandius.
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  - Anonymous Coward, 19 Oct 2011 @ 9:53pm
    
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    and I also forgot to mention, they will also use tax funded indoctrination ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H educational campaigns to teach the entire disagreeing population that piracy is not OK and you will all stop thinking that piracy is OK.
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    - The eejit (profile), 20 Oct 2011 @ 1:31am
      
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      What is piracy? Is it naked culture theft by government monopolies? Or is it downloading a film? Or is it theft on the high seas.
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- Anonymous Coward, 19 Oct 2011 @ 11:07pm
  
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  Ha ha ha ha ha ha thanks I needed that laugh.
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- Mark Parity, 19 Oct 2011 @ 11:44pm
  
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  Yes you're absolutely *puff* *puff* right. Pirate court *puff* *puff* stealing *puff* *puff*.
  
  Now you can put down the bong. The court has ruled. AGAIN. Piracy is not a legal word. There is no "Pirate court". The only pirate is you pirating English words to attempt to make sense of Righthaven folly.
  
  Begone butt pirate.
  
  E
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  - Slicerwizard, 20 Oct 2011 @ 9:54am
    
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    "Now you can put down the bong. The court has ruled. AGAIN. Piracy is not a legal word. There is no "Pirate court". The only pirate is you pirating English words to attempt to make sense of Righthaven folly.
    
    Begone butt pirate."
    
    Clearly, Mark Parity needs new batteries for his sarcasm detector.
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- Spaceboy (profile), 20 Oct 2011 @ 3:31am
  
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  All I have to say is - ARRRGGGHHH
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- Michael, 20 Oct 2011 @ 3:38am
  
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  If the entire population thinks its ok, you cannot call it a just law.
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  - The eejit (profile), 20 Oct 2011 @ 5:23am
    
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    That's not exactly the best argument against it: for example, for centuries, many people thought that the pest punishment for adultery was death by stoning.
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    - Berenerd (profile), 20 Oct 2011 @ 5:45am
      
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      And before that adultery was perfectly ok...
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- abc gum, 20 Oct 2011 @ 5:27am
  
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  +5 points for nailing multiple talking points.
  -1 point for not using the word of the month, Broad Brush.
  -1 point for not using past words of the month.
  
  overall score = +3.
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  - Anonymous Coward, 20 Oct 2011 @ 7:08am
    
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    I may have used the whole "It must be friday" argument that TAM used to keep on bringing up, but it wasn't friday.
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    - hothmonster, 20 Oct 2011 @ 8:03am
      
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      that never stopped him
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- Anonymous Coward, 20 Oct 2011 @ 6:16am
  
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  Wha???
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Overcast (profile), 19 Oct 2011 @ 8:38pm

Haven't made enough profit off abuse of the justice system to pay the justice system, huh?
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Markus Hopkins (profile), 19 Oct 2011 @ 8:44pm

Super Genius
Guys, guys, come on now... I think Righthaven deserves to be cut a little slack here. After all, they actually believed that their scheme to be assigned only the right to sue (despite laws to the contrary) would work. Now, either they are so dumb they deserve our pity, or they are so forward thinking and creative that we should hail them as visionaries. They're probably only a few years ahead of their time, come to think of it. Their actions were so prescient that in a few years when TPP allows such behavior generally, Righthaven should make sure to sue anyone else that follows their lead for copyright infringement!
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- Anonymous Coward, 20 Oct 2011 @ 9:50am
  
  Re: Super Genius
  I guess they're the Betamax of the copyright troll industry...
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gyffes, 19 Oct 2011 @ 8:49pm

Dear AC...
* SLAP *
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TheBigH (profile), 19 Oct 2011 @ 9:19pm

Righthaven's entire business model consisted of trying to extract money from people with threats and dubious legal posturing. Now they're the ones having to pay and pay.

I don't believe that there's a supernatural force that sees to it that people get exactly what they deserve, which makes it all the more satisfying when it actually happens.

Suck it, Righthaven!
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Jason, 19 Oct 2011 @ 10:31pm

court teaching
if Righthaven goes bankrupt. They could lose there Xerox copy machine and the cookie cutter lawsuit template. What will the filthy rich owners do?
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- Anonymous Coward, 19 Oct 2011 @ 10:40pm
  
  Re: court teaching
  I hope they got a patent on all of that so that the public can benefit from increased knowledge in the innovative field of frivolous lawsuits.
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Anonymous Coward, 19 Oct 2011 @ 11:07pm

And are we really meant to believe that a group that was as devious and slime ball to come up with Righthaven in the first place has not also anticipated that one day it would all end like this.

How much money have they spirited away, that will never be returned to those they scammed, knowing this would happen? Unless the law pursues them as individuals they will get away with it.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Oct 2011 @ 2:29am

Righthaven could help content industry by someone producing a comedy film of these endevours. T_T joy
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jameskatt (profile), 20 Oct 2011 @ 6:58am

Sanctions and Contempt of Court
Go ahead, Righthaven.

Please continue to stall until the court charges you with contempt of court and sanctions.

The fact that Righthaven is complaining about a $37,000 fee implies that they collected very little from their threats.
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