noah | December 4, 2007 9:45 am
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File this under “lawsuits that I can’t believe made it out of a beer-fueled staff meeting, let alone all the way to a judge”: “A federal judge on Monday threw out an antitrust lawsuit that the operator of the LimeWire online file-sharing service filed against a coalition of major record labels. U.S. District Judge Gerard E. Lynch in New York ruled that Lime Group LLC failed to make its case that it has been harmed by the recording companies’ business practices, and he granted the companies’ motion to dismiss the claims.” [AP]