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Your description and the one at Ars makes it sounds very cut-and-dried. What that makes me wonder is that the lawyers at Righthaven must have been aware of thi
by bmm6o 16y ago
Your description and the one at Ars makes it sounds very cut-and-dried. What that makes me wonder is that the lawyers at Righthaven must have been aware of this flaw in their arrangement from the beginning, and they were just banking on the truth never getting out. Is that your take, or is it possible they weren't aware of this flaw?
- jrockway 16y agoPerhaps they're just not very good lawyers? We programmers wonder all the time how people can store passwords in the database as plain text. The answer is obvious: they're not very good at computer programming. It stands to reason that for every bad programmer there is also a bad lawyer, and they make mistakes.
- thaumaturgy 16y agoI've seen bad lawyers in action, even though they were supposed to have been the best in their particular area of practice. The documents they filed contained spelling, grammatical, and factual errors; they were poorly (or not fully enough) researched; and in one case, the defense nearly made the prosecution's case for them. Amazingly, the prosecution submitted to a plea agreement anyway. It took me a while to figure out why, but I think now it was purely because they were already overloaded with other cases and didn't feel like fighting it out.