Monday was a busy day for Judge William Haskell Alsup. I already reported that on that day the judge stayed plaintiff’s subpoena pending a clarification of geolocation reliability. There was…
Yesterday I wrote about certain skepticism expressed by California judges regarding Malibu Media’s geolocation reliability. Particularly, I mentioned Malibu’s declaration in response to a CASD magistrate’s order for supplemental briefing….
On 6/16/2016 there was a hearing on the defendant’s motion to quash subpoena in Malibu Media v John Doe (CAND 16-cv-1006, defense attorney: Thomas Pedreira). Malibu’s attorneys on the record,…
Teleport to the latest update This post is about two new appeals in Malibu Media cases. I’ll get to them further below, yet I want to begin with a…
As I reported recently, it seems that there is an ongoing genuine spat between X-Art’s owners and its long time “general counsel” Keith Lipscomb. This disagreement, details of which we’ll…
To say it was unusual and unexpected would be an understatement. The Guardaley | Lipscomb, Eisenberg & Baker | X-Art shakedown machine seemed to be extremely well oiled, operated smoothly…
In September 2015 fresh-out-of-school attorneys Brenna Erlbaum and Brian Heit took the dollar bill bait and subscribed to a reputation-killing job of doing errands for an international copyright shakedown cartel…
The majority of Malibu Media / X-Art shakedown cases end in early stages — either because a defendant succumbs to FUD and pays the ransom, or Libscomb / Malibu drop…
Usually, when I observe an “Order on motion for ex-parte discovery” in the court filings feed, I don’t bother to check: with a 99% probability a copyright troll’s ex-parte request…
I was writing an update to one of my posts about the copyright trolling situation in California, but one particular paragraph of today’s Judge Alsup’s order swayed me into writing…
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