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Review-Journal owner facing $774,000 fee demand in Righthaven case
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 04/11/2012 | By Steve Green

Posted on 04/11/2012 2:05:22 PM PDT by redreno

Attorneys say the owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal should be required to pay $774,683 in legal fees for what critics call a failed ''shakedown'' copyright infringement lawsuit that threatened the free speech rights of a political website.

The attorneys represent the Democratic Underground, a website that defeated Righthaven LLC, the R-J’s copyright enforcement partner, in one of Righthaven’s copyright infringement lawsuits.

If attorneys for the Democratic Underground have their way, the family of Arkansas investment banking billionaire Warren Stephens will be paying their fees for two reasons:

(Excerpt) Read more at vegasinc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: copyrighttroll; du; fraud; nevada; righthaven; vegas

1 posted on 04/11/2012 2:05:34 PM PDT by redreno
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To: redreno
GO DUmmies!

(It's hard to say that, but in this case..)

2 posted on 04/11/2012 2:11:03 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: redreno

$774,000 in legal fees? Holy cow. Can someone get “justice” if they don’t have hundreds of thousands to shell out?

Maybe DU will come out in favor of “loser pays”.


3 posted on 04/11/2012 2:11:03 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: redreno

Wow, never thought I’d be on the side of DU for anything, but it sounds like they achieved some much-needed butt kicking. I guess now they can go back to focusing on destroying Western civilization and hating whitey.


4 posted on 04/11/2012 2:16:41 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Fido969

Now that righthaven has been losign some cases, I hope that Free Republic will soon be able to link to sites that are “righthaven” blocked.


5 posted on 04/11/2012 2:18:00 PM PDT by q_an_a (the more laws the less justice)
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To: Fido969
"Can someone get “justice” if they don’t have hundreds of thousands to shell out?"

It's difficult to get more Justice than you can afford.

6 posted on 04/11/2012 2:22:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: redreno

Sad to say it, but I agree with DU on this one....

LOSER pays! (or they should)


7 posted on 04/11/2012 2:22:57 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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8 posted on 04/11/2012 2:24:05 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: clee1

The LV paper lit the fire.
Now let em burn.


9 posted on 04/11/2012 2:41:15 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Beware the Sweater Vest)
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To: redreno

It just keeps getting better and better!

10 posted on 04/11/2012 3:05:50 PM PDT by Zakeet (Obozo is to competent as an Etch-A-Sketch is to art)
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To: Fido969
"$774,000 in legal fees?"

That kind of figure is small potatoes to the government employees that populate DU. But for us regular folk, it means "justice" is not attainable.

11 posted on 04/11/2012 3:29:59 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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