Looks like it's time to turn out the lights on Righthaven. The US Marshal for the District of Nevada has just been authorized by a federal court to use "reasonable force" to seize $63,720.80 in cash and/or assets from the Las Vegas copyright troll after Righthaven failed to pay a court judgment from August 15.
As a commenter at the site says, it's the last eighty cents that make this justice.
In August, the case Righthaven v. Hoehn was tossed by a federal judge in Nevada, who went a step further and declared that defendant Wayne Hoehn's complete copy of a newspaper article in a sub-forum on the site "Madjack Sports" was fair use. On August 15, the judge awarded $34,045.50 to the Randazza Legal Group, which represented Hoehn. Righthaven, which had spent so much time thundering to defendants about just how badly the federal courts would make them pay... didn't pay.
Instead, it filed a flurry of appeals alleging (among other things) that having to pay the money would involve "the very real threat of being forced out of business or being forced to seek protection through bankruptcy." Righthaven contended that it could eventually win the case on appeal and thus should not be bankrupted before it had the chance to make its case. Courts very rarely act favorably on requests for replevin, which sounds like what Righthaven was asking.
But the increasingly disorganized organization couldn't even get its appellate filings in on time. Yesterday, Righthaven had to admit that it missed the October 31 deadline for its opening brief in the case. It blamed the problem on a "misunderstanding," then noted it would need a few more weeks to actually write the brief, since "Righthaven's counsel is scheduled to undergo a surgical procedure for which it is estimated that he will be recovering outside of the office for approximately one week."
Randazza shot back that Righthaven was "prolonging the appellate process by deliberately creating a manufactured deadline crisis. It is nobody's fault but Righthaven's that it cannot file a single opening brief with this Court within the original briefing schedules Righthaven knew of, and could have reviewed at any time." All the while, Randazza Legal Group was ringing up more fees with every brief it wrote.
The appeals court has refused to act on Righthaven's request to delay its August judgment further, and the money was due last Friday. When it didn't show up, Randazza Legal Group went back to the Nevada District Court to request a Writ of Execution to use the court's enforcers, the US Marshals, to collect the money. The court clerk issued the writ today, and Righthaven's $34,045.50 judgment has now ballooned to $63,720.80 with all the additional costs and fees from the delay.
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And why don't they have any money? Were they paying themselves as fast as they were making it? sounds fishy, I think, not that it isn't done all the time with hospitals that are always on the verge of bankruptcy, etc..
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Go after the law licenses of all the lawyers involved. Go after the parent company that bankrolled this scam shakedown. Go after the personal property of the principals of the company. We want them living in Obamaville under an interstate bridge in cardboard boxes.
Dr Rowan Williams ... sometimes known as the Archdruid of Canterbury, an indifferent theologian and a poor communicator, so obtuse as to occasionally be mistaken for brilliant but chock full of bland New Agey Feel-Goodisms ... said that the Church of England had a "proper interest in the ethics of the financial world" and warned that there had been "little visible change in banking practices" following the recession. When will the Church of England sell all its treasures on the open market so as to raise money for the poor? Get back to me, your ArchDruidness, when that happens.
He urged David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... and George Osborne to drop their opposition to a European-wide tax on financial transactions, which is expected to be formally proposed by La Belle France and Germany at the G20 summit of world leaders starting tomorrow.
"The demands of the protesters have been vague. Many people are frustrated beyond measure at what they see as the disastrous effects of global capitalism; but it isn't easy to say what we should do differently. It is time we tried to be more specific," Dr Williams said.
What you mean 'we', white man?
The archbishop's intervention came after the Church and the City of London Corporation agreed to suspend plans to evict protesters who have been camped on the doorstep of St Paul's for more than two weeks. The issue has caused deep divisions within the Church and led to the resignation of three members of St Paul's clergy.
And a lot of disgust among Anglicans outside of the hermetic clergy.
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Fuck him! I hope the dangerous idiot dies soon. The last thing we need is another tax. With the damage the governments done to the economy through bad taxes just emerging now that we cannot cover up the damage with more debt.
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I call for a new tax on Archdruids Archbishops - 100% of their salaries, plus all their possessions will be taken and sold. They'll be issued 2 sets of clothes (one to wear, one to wash) - preferably made of sackcloth. They can walk or take public transportation.
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Democratic Caliphornia Sen. Dianne Feinstein told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that lax gun control laws, not B.O. regime malfeasance within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF), was the real problem uncovered by Operation Fast and Furious.
"My concern, Mr. Chairman, is there's been a lot said about Fast and Furious, and perhaps mistakes were made, but I think this hunt for blame doesn't really speak about the problem," Feinstein said during the Tuesday hearing. "And the problem is, anybody can walk in and buy anything, .50-caliber weapons, sniper weapons, buy them in large amounts, and send them down to Mexico. So, the question really becomes, what do we do about this?"
"I've been here 18 years," Feinstein continued. "I've watched the BATF get beaten up at every turn on the road. And, candidly, it's just not right."
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"And, candidly, it's just not right."
Di Fi inadvertantly repeats her shrinks mental evaluation report.
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Actually, Di Fi has finally said outloud what the real agenda of F and F was...to make the gun laws appear so lax that the Dems could ram through comprehensive gun control.
It never was about tracking Narcoterrorists or locating Cartels, it was about making a travesty of our gun control laws to create the illusion that comprehensive gun control is necessary. Most of the weaponry used by the Narcs in Mexico are not available for sale in the US. The F and F program creates the ILLUSION that most of the weapons came from the US. Most of the really heavy stuff comes from China and Cuba. Of course we don't even want to mention the Al-Qaeda/Quds/Hizbullah connections to the Narcs in Mexico.
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Yeah, and Finestein has the solution (for her version of a totalitarian nightmare). Collect everyone's guns. Washington, NYC, Chicago, and all those other Democratic-controlled strongholds have done so well at being crime-free. Right? Jeebus these people are disgusting.
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Mexico's Gun Supply and the 90 Percent Myth As we discussed in a previous analysis, the 90 percent number was derived from a June 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico (see external link).
According to the GAO report, some 30,000 firearms were seized from criminals by Mexican authorities in 2008. Of these 30,000 firearms, information pertaining to 7,200 of them (24 percent) was submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for tracing. Of these 7,200 guns, only about 4,000 could be traced by the ATF, and of these 4,000, some 3,480 (87 percent) were shown to have come from the United States.
This means that the 87 percent figure relates to the number of weapons submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF that could be successfully traced and not from the total number of weapons seized by Mexican authorities or even from the total number of weapons submitted to the ATF for tracing. In fact, the 3,480 guns positively traced to the United States equals less than 12 percent of the total arms seized in Mexico in 2008 and less than 48 percent of all those submitted by the Mexican government to the ATF for tracing.
Dianne thinks that the cartels could have just wandered up here, loaded up on 50-cals, sniper rifles, assault rifles, tanks, aircraft carriers, etc., that BO et. al. didn't do anything that the cartels couldn't have done for themselves, and therefore it's not so bad. Of course, this leads to the conclusion that BO, Holder, and the rest of his cabinet and czars are qualified to run for a second term and continue with the drunken spending orgy that they have embarked on.
As a side-effect, this situation can be used to further tighten gun control legislation.
And since tightening gun control legislation in this case would be the usual emotional reaction, doesn't this make F&F a crisis that our rulers all Americans are feeling?
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This statement was made with the media in mind. Now the media can 'report' on F&F by declaring that lax gun control laws is the reason for it (A congresscreature said so!) and the reason that agent ws killed - never mentioning that it was Holder and Obama who sent the guns to the Mexican Cartels.
Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder's service in the B.O. regime may be coming to an end. Thirty members of Congress are now calling for Holder's immediate resignation -- a number that grows larger every day.
Florida Republican Rep. Connie Mack became the latest congressman to demand that Holder step down, telling The Daily Caller late on Tuesday that "Eric Inaction Jackson Holder should resign Fast and Furiously!"
Mack is a high-profile political figure who entered Florida's Republican primary for Senate last week. Mack's decision to call for Holder to resign appears to signal that it's politically popular.
Also, Mack's wife, Caliphornia Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack, previously told the TheDC that she's deeply concerned about Holder's behavior throughout the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.
"Congresswoman Bono Mack is deeply concerned about 'Fast and Furious' and certainly a resignation is not out of the question," her front man Cort Bush told TheDC earlier this week.
North Carolina Rep. Walter Jones tweeted on Tuesday afternoon,"It's time for Eric Inaction Jackson Holder to go!" He joined 28 other members who had called for Holder to resign by Tuesday morning.
The Justice Department and President Barack I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money Obama's White House haven't answered any of TheDC's requests for comment about the growing contingent of congressmen calling for Holder to immediately remove himself from office.
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is they anything worse than a Black Liberation Theology AG? Oh, yes, POTUS.
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But he'd still have to testify, right? Right? I'm so looking forward to his testimony.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Looks like it's time to turn out the lights on Righthaven. The US Marshal for the District of Nevada has just been authorized by a federal court to use "reasonable force" to seize $63,720.80 in cash and/or assets from the Las Vegas copyright troll after Righthaven failed to pay a court judgment from August 15.
Instead, it filed a flurry of appeals alleging (among other things) that having to pay the money would involve "the very real threat of being forced out of business or being forced to seek protection through bankruptcy." Righthaven contended that it could eventually win the case on appeal and thus should not be bankrupted before it had the chance to make its case.
Randazza shot back that Righthaven was "prolonging the appellate process by deliberately creating a manufactured deadline crisis. It is nobody's fault but Righthaven's that it cannot file a single opening brief with this Court within the original briefing schedules Righthaven knew of, and could have reviewed at any time." All the while, Randazza Legal Group was ringing up more fees with every brief it wrote.
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