
Submission + - RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA's attempt to get Ms. Lindor's son's desktop computer in UMG v. Lindor has been rejected by the Magistrate Judge. The judge said that the RIAA
Decision by Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy. (pdf)""offered little more than speculation to support their request for an inspection of Mr. Raymond's desktop computer, based on... his family relationship to the defendant, the proximity of his house to the defendant's house, and his determined defense of his mother in this case. That is not enough. On the record before me, plaintiffs have provided scant basis to authorize an inspection of Mr. Raymond's desktop computer."