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“The marshal can go after personal property or real estate belonging to Righthaven. The order authorizes the marshal to use …

‘reasonable force’ to execute the judgment.”

UD‘s strange legal education continues. Righthaven, the copyright troll that last year sued her, now faces, Bloomberg Business Week reports, the police at the door. They won’t pay any of the many large judgments (more are on the way) assessed against them for their losses in court.

Strange to think that the frighteningly legitimate thing that came bristling up to UD‘s door with a summons last summer turns out to have been what looks more and more like a high-risk, inept conspiracy about to declare bankruptcy. I suppose it’s a measure of UD‘s naivety that this never occurred to her; that she fixed only on the threatening, baffling language of a complaint against her, and not on the possibility that behind the formal machinery and dread-inducing rhetoric lay seven swaggering cocksmen with a can’t miss scheme. Six, seven.

At the moment, Righthaven seems to be down to one guy. His cock must be steamrolled flat.

Margaret Soltan, November 3, 2011 8:38AM
Posted in: free speech

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One Response to ““The marshal can go after personal property or real estate belonging to Righthaven. The order authorizes the marshal to use …”

  1. MattF Says:

    The peculiar thing about Righthaven is, given that their business plan was to sue people, that they got the legal stuff flat wrong. Whenever their actual right to sue anyone came up in court, they were slapped down.

    Makes me think it was really a con game that got out of control– their real business plan was to take the money and run, but… now here come the Marshals. Ooopsie.

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