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Blawg Review #190 Celebrates Bill of Rights Day as the RIAA Seeks to Designate Litigant "Vexatious" for Seeking a Jury Trial

By Les Weinstein, Michael Young, John Leo Wagner, Eric van Ginkel, and Victoria Pynchon

Run right over to the Legal Satyricon for as much Bill of Rights savagery as you might have been waiting eight years for as Blawg Review #190 Celebrates Bill of Rights Day.

Our favorite here at the IP ADR Blog is the Seventh Amendment.

SEVENTH AMENDMENT

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Apparently the RIAA didn’t get the memo on this one. One of its attempted victims in a file sharing lawsuit has had the audacity to demand a trial by jury — a move the RIAA deemed “vexatious.” Wired 27b/6.

All ten are covered in full here!

Blawg Review continues next week, hosted by Ron Coleman at Likelihood of Confusion.

Blawg Review has information about next week’s host, and instructions how to get your blawg posts reviewed in upcoming issues.

Full post as published by IP ADR Blog on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).