RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The jury awarded the record company plaintiffs $675,000 in the Boston trial defended by Prof. Charles Nesson, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. I was not surprised, since exactly none of the central issues ever even came up in this trial. The judge had instructed the jurors that Mr. Tenenbaum was liable, and that their only task was to come up with a verdict that was more than $22,500 and less than $4.5 million. According to the judge, her reason for doing so was that, when on the stand, the defendant was asked if he admitted liability, and he said 'yes.' The lawyers among you will know that that was a totally improper question, and that the Court should not have even allowed it, much less based her holding upon the answer to it."

Comments

Re:Is this the year of clowns?

[st0rmshad0w]

Its the RIAA, I'm certain they'd accept the child, they have to feed their lawyers after all you know.

Re:bankrupt then what?

[Ceiynt]

This will now become my rally cry everytime I hear someone mention Social Medicine in the US. I think you kind citizen.

Re:Why was it improper?

[Jane Q. Public]

Weird. How in the world did that get modded "troll"? I guess I will never understand some people.

Re:Yes what people need to remember

[ub3r n3u7r4l1st]

Apply for political asylum by jumping into a Chinese Embassy.

Re:Lessons Learned

[cliffski]

I thought the lesson was to actually use itunes?