MARTINSBURG, Va. — The courtrooms are being littered with dead porn lawsuits as U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey, a federal judge nominated by George W. Bush no less, has elected to toss more of them in the circular file.
Earlier this month Bailey quashed the attempt of several copyright owners of pornographic content to file subpoenas against a large group of suspected file sharers. The plaintiffs included Combat Zone, whose film Teen Babysitters was allegedly downloaded by about 1,037 different individuals, the suits claimed. All told, Bailey has thrown out 5,462 unnamed defendants from suits filed by Combat Zone, Elegant Angel, Third World Media and West Coast Productions.
This time Bailey, according to a www.xbiz.com story, pared 7,097 defendant from an Axel Braun Productions’ suit which claimed those defendants poached "Batman XXX: A Porn Parody." Only one Doe defendant remains in the suit.
So far eight cases have resulted in quashed subpoena, and they were all filed by attorney Kenneth Ford of the Adult Copyright Co.; all of those cases were filed at U.S. District Court in Martinsburg, W. Va.
