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Righthaven's Lawyers Target of State Bar Investigation
New submitter nwf writes "Ars Technica reports that three of copyright troll Righthaven's company lawyers, including CEO Steve Gibson, are the subject of a Nevada State Bar investigation. Details of the inquiry aren't public, but judges have been blasting Righthaven's legal team so strongly in court that the move is hardly a surprise."
...is that for everyone who tries to make a career by abusing it, there's someone who's made a career by stopping people like them.
Don't kid yourselves. The ONLY reason Righthaven got boot stomped is because they were small and can't afford to pay off the right people. Not because what they were doing was "unacceptable" to our society. This is what happens when the little guy tries to play like the big guys.
Lawyers getting in trouble for falsifying information? My god i thought lawyers were the good guys!
I hope all of them get dis-barred for life. It's the only way other attorneys will get the message.
They will sue the Nevada State Bar Association.
No, this is slashdot. All lawyers are evil. Get with the times man.
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Personally, I love this. The entertainment has been great. Righthaven is now near and dear to my heart. I hope this goes on for at least another year. I mean c'mon, who's going to fill the void?
News is like food. I just ingest and digest the stuff, I don't bother remembering whether I ate from fine china, bone china, or throwaway paper plates. ;^)
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Well done submitting the Ars story to Slashdot, then.
Oh wait, you didn't?
That doesn't mean Slashdot is stagnant, it means you fail at understanding how Slashdot works.
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Considering that those lawyers that stopped them still took a shitload of money from those that were attacked for doing the stopping... way more money than they deserve... being the lawyer who stops it, is about the same as being the guy who saves your life *if* you pay him $15 million, or leaves you dying like a dog otherwise.
I don't consider that anything other than evil.
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Lawyers aren't so much evil as they are hard to kill.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
You ever get dizzy riding that high horse?
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
You can chum the waters with shark meat.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
I wouldn't say evil, but kind of like the real life version of a Dungeon Master. Sometimes they are evil, sometimes they are too far the other way, but get too many munchkins getting into a meta war you begin to appreciate them.
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Where do I go to get my stamp for beer?
I won't be happy until they're hung, drawn, and quartered, their families are sold into slavery, and their fields are salted.
Proverbially, of course.
Here in Regina we have a lawyer named Tony Merchant who's been under investigation by the local bar many times, and he's not been chastized by the judges and the courts nearly as often as Righthaven.
I was starting to think there was no oversight of it's members behaviour with Righthaven and a few ambulance-chasers making the news repeatedly but never being investigated.
The bar association in each district is more than qualified and bound to pull the "lawyer licenses" from it's members who abuse their priveleges and the court system overall.
Tony is still practicing, of course. There were issues that had to be resolved with his practice, and restitution made, but he learned his lesson and was allowed to continue practicing as a result. An investigation does not mean the Righthaven lawyers will be permanent disbarred, even if they are found "guilty" of something by the bar association in their state.
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No, this is slashdot. All lawyers are evil. Get with the times man.
O RLY? Slashdot's own NewYorkCountyLawyer is considered "good"!
They're vampires, but unlike the regular kind they don't sparkle.
There are plenty of "good" lawyers, but the other 99.9 percent kinda give them a bad name.
Google, the most privacy-intruding private organisation on the planet..
**cough ** Facebook.
Including Eben Moglen and Lawrence Lessig?
Facebook are the most privacy-intruding private organisation in a much larger area than just this little planet....