Is anyone going to challenge these thieves in court?
For the same reason they are wanting to own Free Republic, too.
Extorted money.
Righthaven management is now looking and saying "is there a site with any readership that we haven't sued yet? Why not? I want suits filed by morning!"
Have they heard of SCO?
It is a bunch of lawyers playing a can’t lose lottery. They throw basketfuls of darts at multiple targets and collect big for every one that hits a target while costs of threats or filings re miniscule in comparison. In the old days, before judges were men who had taken Critical Legal Studies in Law School these cases would have been disallowed and there would be no payoff. Someone would have to have a real law-based case to get a hearing. Now all the lawyers and judges are graduates of the Crit courses which teach them how to use the Law to destroy society-as-it-is and that it is right to do that. Everything is allowable and because cases are allowed into court in the first place juries believe that they are legitimate cases and treat them as such.
Since they are doing this in a "lawyer mill" fashion, they are setting themselves up for some major "frivolous litigation" damages. Perhaps even disciplinary action. A "lawyer mill" generally has a team (usually non-lawyers) churning out form "cookie-cutter" lawsuits based on a common act. Here they seem to have a computer algorithm looking for any quotes from the Journal then if it finds one a lawsuit gets filed. The only thing the lawyer does in the initiation process is sign the pleading.
This sounds like what the mother of Drew Brees was doing not long before she went off to the Rockies and committed suicide. She was shaking down restaurants and demanding they turn over their domain names and, basically, hoping they simply paid the litigant off and not realize she was just scamming them.
The way to get back is to countersue and INCLUDE every organization whose content is used by the Las Vegas Review Journal, as well as the Review Journal itself. Why, if FR, DU, etc. are to blame for what individual posters post then it should be concluded, by their logic, that Righthaven is suing on behalf of the AP, United Features Syndicate, etc.
At some point, someone is going to come back to the LVRJ and tell them to stop this nonsense and that’s where this will all end.
You just posted a full text article. Better hope Righthaven doesn’t buy the rights to it...
Is Righthaven a holding company? I did some search and all I can find is lawsuits by them. Do they have a website?
Is Righthaven a holding company? I did some search and all I can find is lawsuits by them. Do they have a website?