Florida ‘Manny Film LLC v. John Doe’ cases suffer a black eye (FLSD)
It appears to me as if the Manny Film geolocatoin-based bittorrent piracy lawsuits in Southern Florida have just received their first black eye.
Bittorrent Lawsuit
At what point does a “copyright troll” stop being a troll?
At what point does an attorney stop being a copyright troll? Anyone who knows me knows that John Steele [one of the original trolls from 2010] and I are not the closest of friends. In our many conversations, I have told him quite frankly that I considered him an enemy, and I have told him … Read more
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? New York’s Split Southern District Court
It is very easy to put up a banner claiming “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED — NO MORE BITTORRENT CASES IN SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,” but reality is not that simple. A judge can give a ruling, and it can be a darned good ruling which is binding on all other judges in that federal district (similarly, … Read more
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
Does dismissed from the New Sensations Bittorrent case.
Allow me to congratulation all the Cashman Law Firm, PLLC clients who have been dismissed from New Sensations, Inc. v. Does 1-1,745 (Case No. 3:10-cv-05863-WHA) filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. As we suspected and discussed on July 18th in our “Judge Alsup takes over “New Sensations, Inc.” case” … Read more