{"id":1714,"date":"2010-12-07T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2010-12-07T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:49:54","slug":"motion-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2010\/12\/07\/motion-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion Denied!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied_top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied_top-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied_top-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied_top.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/motion_denied.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/Motion_Denied.mp3'>Motion_Denied<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Court has fully considered <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/thomas_jnov.pdf\">Professor Nesson&#8217;s submissions<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and concluded that the proposed brief would NOT be of assistance to the court.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><big>SLAP!<\/big><\/em><\/p>\n<p>not so much as thank you for the effort<\/p>\n<p>:&lt;(<\/p>\n<p>The opening paragraphs of my rejected offering in friendship were:<\/p>\n<p><strong> Federal Rule 59(d) empowers the Court on its own motion<br \/>\nto &#8220;order a new trial for any reason that would justify<br \/>\ngranting one on a party\u2019s motion.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p> Jammie Thomas has been tried three times, each time<br \/>\naccording to a script that has led to outlandish jury<br \/>\nawards. Clearly something is wrong in the interpretation and<br \/>\napplication of the law that produces and replicates such<br \/>\nresult.  <\/p>\n<p> Amicus Curiae urges the Court, on its own motion, to<br \/>\nrecognize the errors of the previous proceedings against<br \/>\nJammie Thomas and to enter a judgment in her favor<br \/>\nnotwithstanding the verdict. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/files\/2010\/12\/thomas_jnov.pdf\">full brief<\/a><\/p>\n<p>:&lt;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motion_Denied &#8220;The Court has fully considered Professor Nesson&#8217;s submissions &#8230; and concluded that the proposed brief would NOT be of assistance to the court.&#8221; SLAP! not so much as thank you for the effort :&lt;( The opening paragraphs of my rejected offering in friendship were: Federal Rule 59(d) empowers the Court on its own motion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30398,2177,387,30406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jammie-thomas","category-rhetorical-space","category-riaa","category-tenenbaum","p1","y2010","m12","d07","h08"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}