Judge Liam O'Grady, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, also said Friday he will schedule a hearing for Megaupload's motion to dismiss the copyright-infringement charges against the site, although the motion doesn't address the charges against founder Kim Dotcom and other employees. Megaupload's lawyers filed the that the DOJ lacks jurisdiction to prosecute the Hong Kong-based Megaupload.
In addition, the fourth paragraph has been changed to clarify the nature of the search-and-seizure hearing. It now reads:
O'Grady told lawyers for the DOJ and Goodwin that he is considering a search-and-seizure hearing to determine if the DOJ improperly seized the files of Goodwin and other Megaupload users, as Goodwin's lawyers contend, and to determine how to return the files. O'Grady did not decide at the Friday hearing whether to move forward with a so-called search-and-seizure hearing.
The IDG News Service