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New Hampshire Law Students Take On RIAA

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "We have recently learned that another law school legal aid clinic has joined the fight against the RIAA. Student attorneys from the Consumer and Commercial Law Clinic of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, working under law school faculty supervision, are representing a lady targeted by the RIAA in UMG Recording v. Roy in New Hampshire. The case is scheduled for trial next Fall. That makes at least 4 law schools providing anti-RIAA defense services: University of Maine, University of San Francisco, Franklin Pierce, and, most recently, Harvard. Hopefully many more will follow. One commentator theorizes that this news 'will ... [encourage] professors and students at other law schools to take on hitherto defenseless people being pilloried by the corporate music industry.'"

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  1. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They can do anything, as long as they set their minds to it. Haven't you seen Legally Blond?

  2. Re:Awesome by easyTree · · Score: 2, Funny

    See, not all lawyers are bad.

    Wash your mouth out!

  3. Give credit where credit is due by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    FTA:

    We have recently learned that student attorneys* at the Consumer and Commercial Law Clinic of the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, have joined the fight against the RIAA, [...]
    *Student attorneys are law students working under the supervision of law school faculty members.

    We should all stand up and thank the lawyers of the RIAA and MPAA for providing their wonderful volunteer work to train the lawyers of tomorrow.

  4. Re:Awesome by Hordeking · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah?

    Well i can taste your anger.

    Does it taste like chicken?

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    Disclaimer: The opinions and actions of the US Gov't are in no way representative of those held by this author or its ci
  5. Agreed by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Righteous Inquisition Army of America will know the full extent of public scrutiny once the whole of North America sees Denny Crane get sued for a million dollars because his next door neighbour uses his unencrypted wifi to use his limewire to download Metallica's latest!

  6. Re:Awesome by DinDaddy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always imagined it tastes like a slim jim.

  7. Re:Awesome by z0idberg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like if you had a jar of marbles and 10% of the marbles were jerks?

  8. Re:Boston Legal by av567 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..And they better hurry since that show ("Boston Legal") is in it its final, truncated, season.

    It was already covered in The Paper Chase...oh wait, I'm giving away my age again.

    That bogus "deadline" is a canard! Besides the Paper Chase, "Boston Legal" was also preceded by "L.A. Law", and probably others too numerous to remember; they can *always* make a sequel.