Mega-litigation (5)

Also known as... the Third Further Amended Statement of Cartoon

The trial begins in earnest and the plaintiff is called to give evidence. He sits quietly in the box as senior counsel vehemently argue a whirr of interlocutory motions, juniors look on wistfully, process servers deliver boxes, court reporters tap away at short-hand machines and tipstaves scurry around filling glasses of water.

The Plaintiff gets his "Day In Court"

Cartoon Brief

I stumbled across this great (and true) story the other day about Bob Kohn and the "Cartoon Brief". Kohn is the chairman of a company called RoyaltyShare Inc and a expert in electronic licencing law. A couple of months ago he asked to provide the court with submissions as an amicus curiae ("friend of the court" for those without a legal/latin background) in the matter of United States of America v Apple; an anti-trust case brought by the Department of Justice against Apple and five other publishers who allegedly colluded to set prices for e-books. The judge (District Court Judge Cote) gave him leave, but limited his submissions to 5 pages. Kohn, who had intended to file a detailed 25 page brief, instead submitted a simplified version of his argument... in the form of a cartoon. 

The drawings are pretty good - and his argument is quite persuasive. Basically he is saying that one-off market collusion is not always against consumer's interests, and that you must weigh the bad effects of the collusion against the pro-competitive benefits of the agreement. I don't know much about competition law (especially US anti-trust law), but it sounds right to me. 

I wonder if cartoon submissions would work before any Supreme Court judges in NSW? They certainly do seem to hate long submissions...

You can find the whole brief here at the American Bar Association Journal website: http://www.abajournal.com/files/AppleAmicusBrief.pdf

Mega-litigation (4)

Also known as.... The Second Further Amended Statement of Cartoon

The Mega-Litigaant



The Mega-Litigation Judge


And also, a small cartoon to celebrate Australia's appointment to the UN Security Council:

Australia gets a seat at the Big Boy's table

Mega-litigation (3)

Also known as... Further Amended Statement of Cartoon

The parties assemble...

Plaintiffs

Defendants

Mega-litigation (2)

Also known as: the amended statement of cartoon.

Some light pre-trial reading

The case is about to start...

Mega-litigation

Updates from the 28 week trial (week 5!)

Some Interstate Visitors in the Supreme Court of NSW

Things take an unexpected turn

Loosening up

Sorry for the delay! I've been a little out of inspiration (blame a certain piece of long-running bank litigation...). So I've decided to get myself going again by doing a bit of a loosening up exercise. I just drew whatever came to mind, and came up with this:

Oh, and after reading about Murdoch's twitter input in the US election, I drew this: