Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Scumbag Throttled


REMEMBER HIM?
                                      
Steve Gibson

What's lower than an ambulance chaser?
Answer.  This guy has to look up at them

Gibson [
Righthaven LLC], in case you don't know, is the lawyer who's been buying up copyrights; searching the web for bloggers who've used any of the material, and suing them for big bucks.  As an aside, Michele Obama's first post law school job was as an associate at the Chicago office of the law firm Sidley Austin.  Gibson was an associate at Sidley Austin.  Guess what they did at Sidley Ausin?  INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW [source]  Ahem.
[Curmudgeonly & Skeptical Presents Boned Jello Sept 6, 2010]

Today:
Marshals ordered to seize Righthaven assets
Las Vegas copyright infringement lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC’s financial problems grew Tuesday when the federal court in Las Vegas commanded the U.S. Marshals Service to seize more than $63,000 in Righthaven assets to satisfy a creditor [Wayne Hoehn's] judgment and costs. [...]

Hoehn, a Kentucky message board poster, had posted a Review-Journal column on a sports betting website.
[...]

Righthaven has refused to pay and has said it faces bankruptcy if a creditor like Hoehn tries to seize its assets. The company has said it’s low on cash because the problems with its litigation campaign have reduced lawsuit settlement revenue. But even as the company has refused to pay Hoehn, it has continued paying attorneys to litigate other cases in Nevada, Colorado and South Carolina .

[Gibson's]  appealing to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals both the dismissal of its suit against Hoehn as well as the award for his attorney’s fees — one of several attorney’s fee awards Righthaven has been hit with or is likely to be hit with. [Full]

Of course nobody knows what that band of clowns from the 9th U.S.  Circus will do, but as it stands this a just great— on several levels.
  1. Blogger Clayton Cramer independently developed  an ap to auto-blacklist  Gibson's clients
  2. Victims like  Wayne Hoehn fought back and took the attack to him
  3. Nary a politician got involved legislatively
  4. The little creep is getting pounded in state courts.
  5. It's Why We Win!            


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

...it faces bankruptcy... if a creditor seizes its assets...
So what?
A spirochete like him should be grateful we don't have debtor prisons.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

Tom Smith said...

Is it just my dirty mind or does he have a hold of the twig and berries?

Squeak said...

I wish someone would nail his twig and berries to a chair and let lose some rabid dogs on him. Sorry I just despise lawyers.

Anonymous said...

the twig and berries
LMAO!!
I'm stealling that!
Fine name for a tavern too.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

Anonymous said...

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"First, we kill all the lawyers!"

Dick the Butcher

Shakespeare's Henry VI
Henry VI Part 2; Act IV, Scene II.

(except for the Lawyers suing this scumwaffle and righthaven)

Bullseye

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Anonymous said...

Speaking of the 99%, he's part of the 99% who give 1%-ers like Chuck Martel a bad name.

Sir H the lawyered-up Comet

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