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Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Lest there be any doubt that District Judge Michael J. Davis, presiding over the Duluth, Minnesota, case, Capitol Records v. Thomas, really does 'get it' about the toxic effect the RIAA, its lead henchman Matthew Oppenheim, and their lawyers have had on the judicial process, all such doubt should be removed by the order he just entered (PDF). It removes control of the decision-making process from the RIAA, Oppenheim, and the lawyers. In the order Judge Davis spells out, in the clearest possible terms so that there can be no misunderstanding, that at the extraordinary 2-day settlement conference he has scheduled for later this month, each record company plaintiff is ordered to produce an 'officer' of the corporation, or a 'managing agent' of the corporation, who has corporate, decision-making, 'power.' The judge makes it clear that no one who has 'settlement authority' with any limits or range attached to it will be acceptable. This means that 'RIAA hitman' Matthew Oppenheim will not be able to control the settlement process as he has been permitted by the Courts to do in the past."
My heart leaped when I first read that as "Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Death". I'm so disappointed.
Sorry Your Honor,
we took a wrong turn on the way to the court house, and ended up in a country that doesn't have an extradition agreement with America. Yours Sincerely, RIAA lawyers.
this /. summary must have been written by a lawyer, or at least someone who desperately wants to become one!
Well you're part right.
It was written by a lawyer.
But he does not desperately want to be a lawyer; in fact he would prefer to be just about anything else.
Ray Beckerman +5 Insightful
> The judge makes it clear that no one who has 'settlement authority' with any limits or range attached to it will be acceptable
There's still a possibility that the settlement will include beheadings, since the agent will have the authority to grant it.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
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Really? Wow. I'll have to stop getting the paper version delivered.
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It'd be pretty funny though if they went to bankruptcy court and got some people who didn't really like the 'IAAs.
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