Prenda Fails To Pay Filing Fee For Appeal, Now Owes $9,425 In Legal Fees
from the so-many-appeals-to-keep-track-of... dept
While the "big" Prenda appeal is in the central district of California, back in May, we noted that a ruling in the northern district had also said Prenda needed to pay legal fees to Nick Ranallo, in the amount of $9,425. Paul Duffy quickly appealed, but never paid the $455 fee for an appeal. He was warned a few weeks back that he needed to pay up, and still didn't, so the court has now dumped the appeal and locked in the $9,425 fee that Prenda is required to pay. Of course, if they're not even going to pay the $455 for the appeal, I'd imagine that it's going to be nearly impossible to get the $9,425. As we already know, Duffy has claimed that Prenda is winding down its operations... even as a nearly identical operation, with the same basic participants, but called the Anti-Piracy Law Group, sprung up in its place. How long until someone connects those two, and says that the attorneys fees owed can come from the latter as well?
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Filed Under: appeals, attorney fees, fees, nicholas ranallo, paul duffy
Companies: af holdings, prenda, prenda law
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This horse is dead.
Tagline time!
Is there anyone lower or duller than a lawyer groupie? ... Mike just loves discipline at the bench: a real masnickist!
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Except nobody really cares what you say. You've made a career of it though, so congrats on that I guess.
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I really want to see his resume when he applies for a job.
"So, Mr. Blue, I see here it says you've spent the better part of the last several years trolling a website. We normally don't look at that kind of hobby as a plus, but it seems like you will fit in well here in the basement office of the janitorial services department. Welcome aboard!"
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A troll.
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As far as the chain I find the original comment more relevant than all the comments denouncing the original comment.
In fact I find the whole chain to be the work of a group of moronic drunken village idiots who have nothing better to do with their time but to waist it posting absurd jack ass comments at the heading section after each article.
From past experience on other boards it has been my experience that once a board reaches this state where the comment section consists of nothing more than obscenities that the board degenerates to irrelevance rather fast.
The moderator has a choice. The village idiots leave or the board crashes as insight leaves.
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Maybe the appeal itself should have been properly considered, but since they deemed it important enough to bog down our court systems at the district court and appeals levels it probably is ok to waste a bit more on blogs and comments as well.
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Has anyone checked to see if any of these guys are still in the country?
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I'll have a liveblog going at my site (ktetch.co.uk)
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Out of curiosity...
Though I know different rules apply for lawyers and non-lawyers, what would be the typical punishment for refusal or 'inability'(though if anyone honestly thinks those at prenda cannot pay a fine like this after running their extortion racket for so many years, I've got a bridge or two to sell you...) to pay a fine like this, after having had it ordered by a judge?
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Not surprised..
Hes also being sued by his former employer Freeborn Peters...a legit law firm. Anyone know what is going on with that?
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I didn't look close but it looks like Duffy breached his fiduciary duty to his employer.
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A suggestion for TechDirt
When a comment is hidden due to being reported, also hide all of the replies to it. That would prevent the troll from accomplishing its mission of derailing any meaningful on topic discussion.
As it is, trolls can come and throw out lies, innuendo, personal insults and get tons of replies. Sometimes so many that it completely drowns out anything else. That seems to have become its purpose.
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While it's often amusing to read the rantings of a troll, and instructive to read the responses (insofar as many are first attempts at framing concepts mocked by the troller), ultimately, troll threads are distracting.
Collapsible threads would allow an uninterrupted flow of on-topic comments; troll threads could then be read at leisure for what they are - entertainment.
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The problem the troll has is they are shooting the messenger, rather than properly identifying that the horse is being beaten well past many lifetimes by the absurd court filings.
It's the absurd court filings which draw the crowd. Had Prenda simply left the building early on and not drag things out, there is no story to report on.
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It is a valid question whether this is beating a dead horse.
The answer is: to each their own. If you don't want to read about Prenda Law, then don't. I don't read every article in TechDirt and (Important Newsflash:) you don't have to either!
But there are people who are interested in it, and it is their right to be interested in it.
It is only the trolls and their paymasters who want to silence discussion of copyright trolls such as Prenda Law; whether or NOT it is yet a dead horse.
I could also opine that most sitcoms that come out of Hollywood are beating a dead horse. Same old, same old. Just new faces.
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The troll is right, but doesn't even know he is agreeing with us in that.
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Typical collusion
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If they use the same IP address to set up their websites, I am sure you will hear the argument that an IP address is not enough to individually identify them...
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Debtors Exams
A notice of examination can also be directed at any person or entity who is reasonably believed to hold assets of the debtor or know of the location of same. In the right hands, this would serve as a very valuable discovery tool to investigate what is actually occurring.
Most examinations are conducted without a stenographer but there is no reason to prevent one from being used. I would hope that the plaintiffs fighting Team Prenda would band together to fund this.
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