Biglaw Firm Gets Benchslapped Over Controversial Representation Of Porn Company
The judge thinks their client is treating the court as an ATM.
Armed with hundreds of cut-and-pasted complaints and boilerplate discovery motions, Strike 3 floods this courthouse (and others around the country) with lawsuits smacking of extortion. It treats this court not as a citadel of justice, but as an ATM. Its feigned desire for legal process masks what it really seeks: for the court to oversee a high-tech shakedown. This court declines.
— U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of the District of Columbia blasting the copyright cases Fox Rothschild has brought on behalf of its client, porn company Strike 3. Judge Lamberth’s opinion was in response to plaintiff’s request to subpoena an internet service provider to find the identity of a user who Strike 3 alleged illegally downloaded their copyrighted content. Fox Rothschild partner Lincoln Bandlow had this to say about the judge’s opinion: “[his] ruling is wrong on the facts and the law,” and he vowed to appeal the decision.
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