RIAA Short on Funds? Fails to Pay Attorney Fees

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Can it be that the RIAA, or the "Big 4" record companies it represents, are short on funds? It turns out that despite the Judge's order, entered a month ago, telling them to pay Debbie Foster $68,685.23 in attorneys fees, in Capitol v. Foster, they have failed to make payment. Ms. Foster has now had to ask the Court to enter Judgment, so that she can commence 'post judgment collection proceedings'. According to Ms. Foster's motion papers (pdf), her attorneys received no response to their email inquiry about payment. Perhaps the RIAA should ask their lawyers for a loan?"

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Ay, There's the rub....

[asphaltjesus]

Despite the courts awarding this person some money, there's nothing that says the RIAA **has** to pay.

Most likely scenario the individual gets nothing. At all. Sure, she can farm it out to a collections agency, but they'll get nothing. This is the classic problem with most court judgments. The Good Guy may get their day in court, but there's no mechanism to compel the Bad Guy to pay.

OT: I was going to use "Therein lies the rub" as the title, but it looks like that is an abuse of the original phrase.