I'm not a top-tier Doxemon player and I really wish someone else had stepped up to the task, but here's some dox for one of the big bads of the Weeb Wars, the infamous Judge Chupp himself! In honor of two years of his obviously correct ruling (judges never make mistakes after all) on
Mignogna v. Funimation, let's find out more about this legal titan, shall we?
John Parrish Chupp
DOB: 12/15/1971
Age: 49
712 Bunker Hill Dr, Arlington, TX 76011
Email:
JudgeChupp@gmail.com
The Honorable John Parrish Chupp is a current judge of the 141st District Court in Tarrant County, Texas, known for his style of jurisprudence that infuriates groups of people as diverse as churchgoers, anime fans, and public health officials. John was born on December 15, 1971 in Tarrant County, TX to John Franklin Chupp and Teresa Chupp. The name "John Chupp" runs in the family, as evidenced by his great-grandfather Johnny M. Chupp, but don't call him Junior! An Arlington native, Chupp attended M. B. Lamar High School growing up and later attended the University of North Texas (graduated 1995) and St. Mary's University (199
for his legal education.
Chupp was admitted to the Texas Bar on June 26, 1998 and soon thereafter spent over a decade as a Board-certified personal injury lawyer working at the Guerrero Law Office in Dallas, Texas. He may have had a legal practice of his own, Cannon & Chupp, at some point in the 2000s. However, ambulance chasing got tiring for Chupp, as in 2009 Governor Rick Perry appointed him judge of the 141st District Court in Tarrant County to replace a vacancy. Since then, he has brought his unique jurisprudence to the Texas court system. For instance, according to Judge Chupp, criticizing someone's auto-repair business on Yelp is defamatory. At first glance, this appears to be opposite of Chupp's landmark ruling in Mignogna v. Funimation, where people calling a voice actor guilty of criminal sexual assault is not defamation, yet according to Chupp's intricate analysis of the legal record and past cases, this is perfectly reasonable.
Chupp being sworn in as Judge with his family in attendance
Chupp periodically appears in the news over his legal style. For instance, he served as the judge in the Mignogna v. Funimation case, dismissing voice actor and wearer of homosexual pants Vic Mignogna's defamation claims against his employers. This ruling infuriated terminally no-life fans of Chinese cartoons to the point they allegedly sent death threats to Judge Chupp. Other notable rulings include a property dispute involving a diocese breaking away from the Anglican Church which Chupp settled using church law rather than Texas law. This action won him a writ of mandamus from the Texas Supreme Court ordering him to redo the case correctly. Most recently, Judge Chupp weighed in on the debate over mask mandates in Tarrant County schools and granted an injunction to suspend them using reasoning such as "I find wearing a mask all day uncomfortable" and "if you're wearing a mask, why do you care if someone else isn't?" This show's Chupp's ability to find that Texas law and populist appeals are one and the same.
"Judges never make mistakes" - Twitter
A common accusation is that Judge Chupp is "lazy" and simply doesn't care to look at the legal record. Yet this clearly is not the case when Chupp knew the legal record of Mignogna v. Funimation well enough to determine that defendant Ron Toye was an independent contractor of Funimation. Similarly, Chupp's brilliant legal appears in matters such as mask mandates for schools on the basis of pointed questions toward the pro-mask mandate side such "have you ever had to wear a mask for 8 hours?"
Chupp has won only one election in his life, where in 2010 when he defeated former judge Paul Enlow in the Republican primary. All of his elections since he has run unopposed for his judicial seat. In the 2020 Texas Court of Appeals election, Chupp won only 16% of the vote against his two opponents. The political analysts of Kiwifarms determine this is due to Chupp's campaign style which features a webpage with almost no information about himself and a political survey where he describes the reason he will make a good court of appeals judge as simply because he's the district court judge.
Chupp's house
John Chupp lives just outside Fort Worth in his house at 712 Bunker Hill Dr in Arlington, Texas, with his wife Ramey Marie Chupp and his 2 daughters. A frugal man despite his successful career as a lawyer and judge, Chupp drives (or drove) a 2006 Acura TL.
Registered voter since 1990
Links:
Chupp's house -
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/712-Bunker-Hill-Dr_Arlington_TX_76011_M83459-07485 (
https://archive.md/wip/jPPv5)
Texas State Directory page -
https://www.txdirectory.com/online/person/?id=35359 (
https://archive.md/wip/vUyMq)
Ballotpedia -
https://ballotpedia.org/John_Chupp (
https://archive.md/uokWf)
State Bar of Texas page
https://www.texasbar.com/AM/Templat...ry/MemberDirectoryDetail.cfm&ContactID=198604 (
https://archive.md/sshR8
Trellis page -
https://trellis.law/judge/john.p.chupp (
https://archive.md/UUFzY)
Chupp's father's obituary -
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dfw/name/john-chupp-obituary?pid=752145 (
https://archive.md/1aDD8
Chupp's ancestor Johnny -
https://www.geni.com/people/Johnny-M-Chupp/6000000002327683364 (
https://archive.md/YoUCB)
Critic's rave about him!
http://www.therobingroom.com/texas/Judge.aspx?id=10297 (
https://archive.md/wip/2v1Jb)
Campaign website -
https://www.johnchupp.com/ (
https://archive.md/B7T4c)
Chupp vs the Anglican Church -
https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/search?q=chupp (
https://archive.md/wip/nc0Gk)
Chupp vs Mask mandates -
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/08/13...ants-restraining-order-against-fort-worth-is/ (
https://archive.md/ctQPj)
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