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Boston Judge Denies RIAA Motion for Judgment

Posted by samzenpus on from the make-it-slow-and-painful dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In a Boston case, Capitol v. Alaujan, the defendant is representing herself, without a lawyer. Nevertheless, the Judge denied the RIAA's motion for summary judgment, which the RIAA had based upon the defendant's alleged failure to respond to the RIAA's Request for Admissions. The Court's decision (pdf) held that the RIAA had served its requests for admission prematurely, prior to the conduct of any discovery conference. The Court also noted that the RIAA had upped the ante quite a bit, trying to get a judgment based on 41 song files, even though it had originally been asking for judgment based on 9 song files. This would have increased the size of the judgment from about $7,000 to about $31,000. The Judge scheduled a discovery conference for October 23rd, at 2:30 P.M. and ordered everybody to attend. Such conferences are open to the public."

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  1. Newsworthy by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is everything that has something to do with the RIAA getting shot down newsworthy on slashdot these days?

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  2. Re:for future reference by Lifyre · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What the Fuck Mate? Get a Livejournal or something.

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  3. Re:for future reference by Walpurgiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's like the 3rd time I've seen this exact post here :/ Almost every topic ends up with one of these copy/pasted troll stories. Another irritating one is about some guy getting his intestines sucked out by a pool suction vent. Only slightly more annoying to skip past than the usual 'milfy bewbs' myspace link (due to length) but much, much, stupider.