Federal judge
In March 2011, a federal judge dismissed a suit brought by Righthaven, stating that no evidence had been presented that the forum posting of a "Las Vegas Review-Journal" editorial for 40 days for noncommercial use harmed the market value of the work. In June 2011, another federal judge ruled that Righthaven had no standing to sue for copyright infringement, on the grounds that the original parties retain the actual copyrights. In August 2011 another case was dismissed by Federal judge Philip Pro, who found that Righthaven had no standing to sue, and in any case the defendant's posting of a "Review-Journal" editorial to a blog was protected by fair use. The next month the "Review-Journal" terminated its arrangement with Righthaven, which was forced into receivership in November 2011 because of unpaid legal settlements.