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Copyright Troll Liebowitz Suspended His
Firm Still In Line for Fees From Sell It
Social
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 17 – The Liebowitz Law
Firm, sometimes called
copyright trolls, appeared on
December 17 in their lawsuit
against Sell It Social, LCC.
Relatively news U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
John P. Cronan
held it. Inner
City Press covered it - in
fact, live tweeted it, here.
But
Liebowitz, in October 2020
prior to his suspension, had
named the wrong website:
Singer's Room. No matter -
Sell It Social didn't show up,
and a default judgment for
statutory damages is in the
work.
Judge
Cronan diligently asked if
Liebowitz worked on the case
after this suspension (no, was
the answer) and how many of
the other cases against Sell
It Social were by the firm.
During the
proceeding, Inner City Press
looked up the most recent one,
from 2020 - and yes, it was
subject to default judgment,
for $12.352.50 including
$1912.50 in attorney's fees.
Judge
Cronan has yet to issue his
ruling in this case. It is
Farrington v. Sell It Social,
LLC, 18-cv-11696 (Cronan).
Inner City Press
will have more on this.
Back on
December 4 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Louis L.
Stanton held a proceeding, and
took his time.
Insider, Inc.'s
lawyer, Oren J. Warshavsky of
Baker & Hostetler, said
his client pays him $1,500 an
hour. His point was they
don't mind fighting - they
just don't want to pay legal
fees to LLF which keeps suing
them.
LLF's James H.
Freeman said despite
Liebowitz's actions in a few
case - he is now subject to an
interim suspension order by
the SDNY Grievance Committee,
M-2-238, cited by SDNY Judge
Jesse M. Furman in his
November 30 order in Usherson
v. Bandshell Artist
Management, 19-cv-6368 -
doesn't change that he is
fighting for "working class
photographers."
The Baker
& Hostetler lawyer
sneered, "Let's not pretend
you're in this for the public
interest."
Judge
Stanton, noting that he
practices law for 30 years and
so understood fees, set a next
conference for January 15, on
issues including when the
registration in this case was
filed.
The case is
Chin v. Insider, Inc.,
20-cv-4707 (Stanton)
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