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RIAA Directed To Pay $68K In Attorneys Fees

Posted by kdawson on from the not-with-impunity dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Capitol v. Foster, in Oklahoma, the RIAA has been directed to pay the defendant $68,685.23 in attorneys fees. This is the first instance of which I am aware of the RIAA being ordered to pay the defendant attorneys fees. The judge in this case has criticized the RIAA's lawyers' motives as 'questionable,' and their legal theories as 'marginal' (PDF). Although the judge had previously ordered the RIAA to turn over its own attorneys billing records, today's decision (PDF) made no mention of the amount that the RIAA had spent on its own lawyers."

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  1. Re:And the winner in all of this is . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's one even bigger winner: government. Obviously, the business of government today is orders of magnitude more lucrative than, say, 100 years ago when total revenue (and power) was a fraction of what it is today.

    Lawyers are mere pawns compared to the power elite who actually run the business of government.

  2. Re:Exactly by db32 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, they would be called Rap stars.

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    The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.