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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."
99.9% of people would rather go bankrupt than die waiting for surgery.
If you were trying to convince me that national health care is better, it really didn't work.
Just saying...
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
I have to point out that to The Rest Of The World (i.e. the vast majority of people on the planet) the word "Freedom" does not mean what Americans say it means. Frankly, over the last 50 years we've seen American "freedom" in action in Vietnam, Somalia, Central America, Waco, Utah, Iraq etc., and we don't want it thank you.