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Notes from the Lightspeed hearing in East St. Louis (November 12, 2014)
By Dbs I showed up at the courthouse about 10 minutes before scheduled time. After running through security and running an item back out to the car, finally got to the courtroom with 2-3 minutes to...
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Notes from the 11/20/2014 AF Holdings, LLC v. Patel hearing
The AF Holdings v Patel (GAND 12-cv-00262) Show Cause Hearing, which was abruptly interrupted by a snowstorm on the 1/28/2014 afternoon, was finally continued and concluded almost ten months later, on...
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Prenda’s Jacques Nazaire requests a nonsensical “sanction hearing by a jury”
Prenda is a gift that keeps on giving. No matter how this phrase is banal and overused, it will be repeated many more times, guaranteed. Because… Prenda is a gift that keeps on giving. At different...
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Copyright troll A. Jordan Rushie, or There and back again
The long story short, A. Jordan Rushie (a Philadelphia attorney who used to represent copyright troll victims) started filing Guardaley-driven, Lipscomb-coordinated shakedown lawsuits in New Jersey....
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In the wake of Prenda: Jordan Rushie “represents” a sham client
A refurbished copyright troll Jordan Rushie likes to pathetically repeat that The problem is not in the principle per se (although it is prone to abuse and it easily becomes a “Nuremberg defense” of...
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Keith Lipscomb shakes down a family in extreme hardship
In every culture assaulting elderly and weak is the hallmark of evil. Michael Keith Lipscomb’s parents apparently failed him so miserably that he cannot tell right from wrong even in cases obvious to...
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Good Man Productions, Inc.: a zombie troll plaintiff
A copyright shakedown outfit lead by M. Keith Lipscomb and his German counterparts recently filed 99 Bittorent cases “on behalf” of Good Man Productions, Inc. Those lawsuits were filed in eight...
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X-Art shakes down yet another ill and broke victim
We don’t want to ruin someone’s life,” Field asserted. “I do not want to cause anyone financial hardship. From X-Art’s owner Colette Field’s interview (9/27/2014) “Barely legal” porn troll Patrick...
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Oral arguments in Prenda’s appeal to the Ninth Circuit: live video feed
Almost exactly two years ago Prenda Law, its principals John Steele, Paul Hansmeier, Paul Duffy, Brett Gibbs¹, and two bogus plaintiffs (AF Holdings and Ingenuity 13) were epically smacked down by...
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ARDC suddenly remembers that there is “D” in its acronym, starts disciplinary...
Finally… John Steele Today Jerome Larkin, Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois, via Counsel Wendy J. Muchman and Marita C. Sullivan,...
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Another report from AF Holdings v. Patel hearing (1/28/2014)
Below is another story from the AF Holdings v. Patel (GAND 12-cv-00262) hearing held on 1/28/2014 in Gainesville, Georgia. Thursday’s post featured transcript-like notes made by Oralia Oglesbee....
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Prenda’s first oral arguments in front of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals: a...
Thyself shalt see the act: For, as thou urgest justice, be assur’d Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir’st. Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. Since Prenda became a national poster child,...
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John Steele finds out that Prenda lost their Lightspeed appeals
By Kat Anon and TAC If for some (frankly, inexcusable) reason you know nothing about yesterday’s Prenda smackdown resulted from the April hearing in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, these...
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Minnesota Appellate Court affirms $63K judgment against Prenda, questions...
Edward Toussaint, Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals (Retired) When it rains, it pours. As if the last week total Prenda smackdown by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals was not enough, today...
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Unsealed documents show Prenda parties’ twisted finances
Prenda’s recent devastating defeat in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals was a result of Dan Booth’s / Jason Sweet’s titanic work and John Steele’s / Paul Hansmeier’s incurable hubris. Trolls’...
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Prenda’s Hansmeier asks court to deny motion for summary judgment because…...
As you may have noticed, I don’t write about Prenda anymore: my spare time is limited, and I prefer to spend it covering enemies of the society that are still strong and dangerous — unlike former...
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The Ninth Circuit affirms fee award imposed by Judge Wright against Prenda...
A long awaited ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is out. Circuit Judges Harry Pregerson, Richard Tallman, and Jacqueline Nguyen affirmed district court’s award of attorney’s fees...
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What is next for Paul Hansmeier?
By drvandalia ¹ Paul Hansmeier So what is next for Paul Hansmeier? (For some reason, I really don’t care about John Steele anymore. Perhaps someone else can take up the role of following Steele’s path...
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Prenda’s Hansmeier stipulates to suspension of his law license
In a previous post I suggested that the next event in the long running Prenda saga was likely to be a ruling by the referee in Hansmeier’s Minnesota lawyer discipline case. Well, I was close. There...
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Steele and Hansmeier have been finally indicted on fraud, money laundering...
Teleport to the latest update Sweet holiday gift. The masterminds of a porn extortion outfit Prenda — John Steele and Paul Hansmeier — are finally indicted (USA v. Hansmeier et al, MND 16-cr-00334)....
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