So in your opinion what is Russ trying to do here? Are his lawyers jerking him round and delaying because they know his case is retarded? I guess I'm asking whats the point in all these delays and extensions?
His lawyers are the one's doing the doing.
Praying for a miracle? Your guess is as good as mine.
They 100% know that Russ has no case.
It seems like they just gave his case a cursory review before taking it and didn't do any background research on Russ himself. And now they're stuck. Since they're pro bono, they can't quit due to nonpayment, and "Your Honor, we were too stupid to check and find out our client is a wackaloon before we took the case" probably won't fly as a reason for the judge to release them,
They should very strongly insist on not doing the defamation claims, and when Russ insists, use that as a reason to ask the court to let them withdraw (if they pursue the defamation claims against Null they could get sanctioned or even worse. The claims have no merit, and they know it)
Christ, that's the spittle-spraying argument I want to observe. Poor Russ, thinking these legal Accommodations (who might not be best, but still) are the best way to lend some sort of gravitas to those claims, and them having none of it.
Especially after wasting everyone's time with dilatory and evasive gamesmanship and wild tales that are as credible as the dog eating their homework. In fact I think that's their next claim.
No, the client is "captain of the case" and lawyers have to represent their client in the manner he wishes, so long as that is legal and not so abhorrent to the attorneys they amount to irreconcilable differences justifying withdrawal. Also a client can always discharge a lawyer, unlike the other way around. The only real exception is the client has been adjudged incompetent (no not like Russ as in mental and not like Russ mental but too crazy to assist meaningfully).
I think he is too crazy to assist meaningfully. When he was charged with electronic harassment, he wrote a fucking letter to the judge telling the judge he did what he was accused of, but it wasn't harassment because he said it wasn't. He's not just insane, he's an idiot. He's a crazy idiot. He'd have to be to think his plans would ever work. He wrote a shitty song for Taylor Swift, who at the time he wrote it was the world's most famous singer and expected her to not only turn songwriting over to him, but fall in love with him and make him famous. He thought the Katy Perry/Taylor Swift feud was real and though he could get Katy Perry to help him "destroy" Taylor Swift. These are the actions of someone who is not only certifiably bonkers, but just north of being an bona fide sped. He hasn't been ajudged incompetent, but just talk to him for five minutes, and it's clear there's something very wrong with him. But his lawyers would still have a hard sell in getting a judge to let them walk, because the judge would probably tell them they should have checked Russ out before agreeing to represent him.
Could these delays be a tactic to try and encourage Russhole to discharge his counsel? Given that it's taken this long and progress appears to be glacial, maybe Messrs Grimm and Keenan are hoping that Russhole will lose patience.
I think you're right, because it's obvious they just snapped up the case because they thought they could pad their resume with it and didn't bother to google Russ and find out he's insane. And like others have said, I think (and hope) he's really trying to get them to pursue the defamation claims because it's clear that insulting his massive ego is worse than anything else in his mind. As @Useful_Mistake said, Russ's lawyers know the defamation claims are meritless, and they could potentially get in trouble for pursuing them. I don't think Russ really cares about the book that much, it's just we said things that indicate we don't think he's the greatest and that cannot stand. Remember how nutso he went over the "invasive and troubling" statement? This is the same thing. We're contradicting his claim of being a great guy, and providing proof, and that hits at the core of who he thinks he is.
Which isn't legally incompetent.
No it's not, but I bet his lawyers were wishing they could question their client's sanity before the judge.
They aren't allowed to file anything that would breach their ethics, court requirements, or be illegal.
One thing they might have a problem with is if both counsel and Russ are filing things that contradict each other. Russ is probably too stupid not to do that. Courts generally really hate messes like this, where you get the worst of having counsel and the worst of having a pro se idiot spewing gibberish (despite having lawyers).
I look forward to the extended screed about how Keenan and Grimm are fake lawyers who sabotaged the case.
