Judge Order US Copyright Group To Show Cause June 9, 2010
In what is potentially a coup for the defendants in the US Copyright Group’s P2P cases, a Federal District Court ordered the plaintiffs to show cause, essentially, to give the court a good reason not to dismiss all but one plaintiff from each case.
The judge brings up something that has been mentioned before: it’s not proper under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to bring between 2,000 and 5,000 unrelated cases as one giant case. By bringing it all as one case, the US Copyright group cuts down an filing fees, but it looks like this judge caught on. If the US Copyright Group can’t give the judge a good reason to dimiss the rest of the plaintiffs, this prosecution may get too expensive for the US Copyright group to maintan.
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