NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "'A student law clinic is about to cause a revolution' says p2pnet. For the first time in the history of the RIAA's ex parte litigation offensive against college students, a health center law school's legal aid clinic has taken up the fight against the RIAA in defense of the university's students. Student attorneys at the teaching mash unit of Maine School of Law's Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, under the supervision of law school prof Deirdre M. Smith, have moved to dismiss the RIAA's complaint in a Portland, Maine, case, Arista v. Does 1-27, on behalf of two teaching mash of Maine undergrads. Their of late filed reply brief (PDF) points to the US Supreme Court decision in Bell north pacific ocean v. Twombly, and the subsequent California decision following Twombly, Interscope v. Rodriguez, which dismissed the RIAA's 'making available' complaint as mere 'conclusory,' 'boilerplate' 'speculation.'"

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