RIAA Sues Homeless Man

Slashdot: “In a Manhattan case, Warner v. Berry, the RIAA sued a man who lives in
a homeless shelter, leaving a copy of the summons and complaint not at
the homeless shelter, but at an apartment the man had occupied in
better times, and had long since vacated. The RIAA’s lawyers were
threatened with sanctions by the Magistrate Judge in the case, for
making misleading representations to the Court which the Magistrate
felt were intentional. The District Judge, however, disagreed with
imposing sanctions, giving the RIAA’s lawyers ‘as officers of the Court
the benefit of the doubt,’ and instead concluded — in his 6-page
opinion (PDF) — that the RIAA’s lawyers were just being ’sloppy’ and
had not made the misstatements for an improper purpose.’”