Righthaven Stops Showing Up In Court

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Righthaven Stops Showing Up In Court

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 26, 2012 @07:58AM from the waving-the-white-flag dept.

Fluffeh writes "This story has gone from funny to sad. Following copyright-troll Righthaven's recent whipping by a judge, it now appears the company has just given up altogether. CEO Steve Gibson is working at another job (while being investigated by the Nevada Bar) and main lawyer Shawn Mangano apparently has completely stopped responding to all attempts to contact him, even by the court. All this has resulted in the key appeals in its cases to be dismissed 'for lack of prosecution.' Last Thursday it also had a key case closed, with prejudice, driving another nail in its already buried coffin."

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Re:driving another nail in its already buried coff by KingSkippus · 2012-03-26 08:02 · Score: 5, Funny

The court actually dug the coffin up, drove another nail into it, and reburied it. Yes, it was a lot of work, but the point needed to be proven that badly.
Ignore the Court? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-26 08:05 · Score: 5, Funny

I wish I could ignore court orders and get on with my life. Somehow I don't think that works for people.
SCO and Righthaven merger by Danathar · 2012-03-26 08:06 · Score: 4, Funny

And in other news Darl McBride has announced that SCO will be merging with Righthaven to "Leverage synergistic energies to protect our customers"
1. Re:SCO and Righthaven merger by tripleevenfall · 2012-03-26 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Dear lord, what if they synergize their core competencies?
2. Re:SCO and Righthaven merger by gman003 · 2012-03-26 08:37 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Then they'll be able to fail *twice* as epically!
  Failure, of course, being their core competency.
3. Re:SCO and Righthaven merger by dkleinsc · 2012-03-26 08:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They'll use best practices and outside-the-box thinking to rightsize the cloud-based agile empowerment solutions with viral social messaging, of course. Do I have to think of everything around here?
  
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4. Re:SCO and Righthaven merger by gstoddart · 2012-03-26 08:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  They'll use best practices and outside-the-box thinking to rightsize the cloud-based agile empowerment solutions with viral social messaging, of course
  Hey, I got Bingo!! Awesome, thanks.
  
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  Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Re:driving another nail in its already buried coff by tripleevenfall · 2012-03-26 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny

It's like in Moby Dick, the coffin was built for someone, then that someone didn't die, then it was nailed shut and used as a bouy, then it was dragged down to the depths without any human intervention, then ironically the person did die when the coffin would have saved them, but then without any human intervention it erupted back to the surface, saved someone else's life, and then... well, was probably discarded again, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, the coffin which already was buried was exhumed, had one additional useless nail driven in, and - well, it's something to do with hamburgers or cars I'm sure.
Re:driving another nail in its already buried coff by jd · 2012-03-26 08:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Leave the sun out of it. They're being investigated for enough crimes as it is.

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