UPDATE 3: More of Mike Meier bittorrent cases consolidated.
All of Mike Meier’s NY-based Bittorrent cases consolidated by New York Federal Judge Forrest so that she can adjudicate them together.
Joinder
Joinder: Whether the John Doe Defendants in a lawsuit should be linked together as defendant in the same lawsuit. Joinder usually relates to the question of whether they were involved in the “same transaction or occurrence.”
In many mass-IP-adrdess-based John Doe copyright infringement lawsuits, joinder is improper because the accused downloaders did not download the same copyrighted title from the same online swarm at the same time. Yet, they are thrown together in one lawsuit as co-defendants.
Maria-Elena James, Judge vs. Ira Siegel, Troll
Maria-Elena James vs Ira Siegel is a Judge vs. Copyright Troll saga that is unfolding in California.
Judge Bates “removed” from Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-1,495 case. Potentially bad news for defendants.
Like most of you, we here at the Cashman Law Firm, PLLC have been watching the Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Does 1-1,495 (1:11-cv-01741) case in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. To our surprise and against the 1+ year trend of the DC Court, earlier this month, Judge Bates went against … Read more
Tru Filth bittorrent lawsuit trashed for out-of-state defendants.
As we wrote just four days ago, Ira Siegel’s On the Cheap, LLC dba Tru Filth, LLC v. Does 1-5011 case (Case No. 3:10-cv-04472-BZ) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California has been ripped apart. So, congratulations to the Cashman Law Firm, PLLC clients who have been severed and dismissed from … Read more
What to do about these smaller Doe filesharing cases?
The bittorrent cases are speeding up, both in number of cases filed, and in the issues relating to the cases. Judges are smartening up to what is going on, and I am seeing the smaller “Does 1-23” cases ripped to shreds in the courts. But, because they are so small, the activities in each case … Read more