Re: [dvd-discuss] Inexplicable

[Tom <tom(at)lemuria.org>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:23PM -0700, Michael A Rolenz wrote:
> Maybe true...but that is still no reason.....We'll try them in absentia in 
> the California Courts....and if they don't show up the courts can find 
> them all in contempt for not showing up! <sorry. I couldn't resist. The 
> Stupidity of the California Court system in the case of Matt P. still 
> ticks me off>

Why go to Matt when you're talking about germans and have a german who
_was_ tried in that california court right here? :)


The actual procedure was not a contempt of court thing, but rather a 
so-called "entry of default" aka "we find you guilty because you didn't 
fly halfway across the globe for us". 
In my eyes, that's at least as stupid.

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