The SFWA leadership were out for revenge for the 'Goodreads Saga'.
The following happened in 2018-2019 well before this thread was made. After the OnA subreddit's attacks on Pat ramped up, some of piggy's twitter friends jumped in to help him. SFWA members Paul Weimer (who now has a thread here), MM Shill, and Adam Rakunas (Pat's con buddy, possible homosexual lover, and SFWA secretary). As they in-turn became targets other SFWA members started to pay attention, especially to the negative review bombing raids on Goodreads.
Mary Kowall, then head of the SFWA and
@Boston Brand's good friend took offense to all the shit that was sent her way and apparently green-lit the lawsuit, along with Tobias Buckwall, SFWA financial officer, who had also been fucked with.
No members questioned it because there is no accountability in the SFWA. As far as I can tell, even today a significant portion of the membership still has no idea that the lawsuit happened.