Steve Quest (p/k/a Montagraph) vs. Nicholas Robert Rekieta & Rekieta Law, LLC (2023)

You see a lot of people just put it in their generic prayer for relief under the theory of "If you don't ask, you don't get".
IME you put it in as almost-boilerplate so that if cause arises later you don't have to amend your prayer. I've never seen anyone get excited about it one way or the other.
 
IME you put it in as almost-boilerplate so that if cause arises later you don't have to amend your prayer. I've never seen anyone get excited about it one way or the other.
A prayer for relief has to be more than just insane (e.g. demanding a billion gazillion dollars) before it's penalized, sort of like you're generally not penalized for listing every imaginable affirmative defense in your answer even if they're not remotely applicable.
 
A prayer for relief has to be more than just insane (e.g. demanding a billion gazillion dollars) before it's penalized, sort of like you're generally not penalized for listing every imaginable affirmative defense in your answer even if they're not remotely applicable.
Nobody reads the prayer for relief except federal clerks writing a bench memo about diversity jurisdiction.
 
Nobody reads the prayer for relief except federal clerks writing a bench memo about diversity jurisdiction.
Gotta say OVER $75,000. There are literally cases where someone pled exactly $75,000, because they didn't get that whole EXCEEDING thing in § 1332, and their case got thrown out. PROTIP: plead $75,000.01.
 
Gotta say OVER $75,000. There are literally cases where someone pled exactly $75,000, because they didn't get that whole EXCEEDING thing in § 1332, and their case got thrown out. PROTIP: plead $75,000.01.
"We the jury award the plaintiff one penny."
 
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While I have my doubts that any of that would be allowed by the courts, I'd love to see the transcript of the hearing where both sides are arguing adamantly over which object was touched inappropriately while the judge starts hinting that the bailiff just fucking execute him.
 
Nick mentioned in response to a superchat during the Murdaugh trial stream that Randazza was supposed to file his response, but nothing's showing up yet. The last document's still the pro hac vice order.

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If the response was actually filed it should be hitting the docket any time now. Guess we'll have to keep an eye on it.

Unless the response is late, of course.



edit: It's not a response, it's a stipulation. Apparently, Quest's lawyers conferred with Randazza, and they've decided that they need to amend their complaint...

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tl;dr: amended complaint will be due 7 days from the date the court signs the stipulated order, Nick's response will be due 14 days thereafter.
 

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Fantastic. Instead of a quick motion to dismiss based on the obvious problems in the complaint we now get the full show as the lawyers confer and agree to maximum lolsuit silliness.

I’m looking forward to the revised complaint and Randazza’s response.
It would be a huge waste of time for both sides to go through the motions of an MtD followed by a nearly inevitable grant of leave to amend. Personally I think they should have not agreed to it and just gone ahead and filed the MtD and opposed the leave to amend, and filed for sanctions on top of that, just on principle but hey, maybe Nick isn't finding that even the dumbest of his Nickers want to fund his luxury lolsuit defense, and Randazza is costly counsel.

In any event, this is the same result that was most likely at much less cost. And remember, Minnesota doesn't have a SLAPP statute. Ironically, SLAPP is intended to reduce litigation but we see what happened in the Vic case. It actually encouraged not just litigating but massively over-litigating a rather simple case.
 
It would be a huge waste of time for both sides to go through the motions of an MtD followed by a nearly inevitable grant of leave to amend. Personally I think they should have not agreed to it and just gone ahead and filed the MtD and opposed the leave to amend, and filed for sanctions on top of that, just on principle but hey, maybe Nick isn't finding that even the dumbest of his Nickers want to fund his luxury lolsuit defense, and Randazza is costly counsel.

In any event, this is the same result that was most likely at much less cost. And remember, Minnesota doesn't have a SLAPP statute. Ironically, SLAPP is intended to reduce litigation but we see what happened in the Vic case. It actually encouraged not just litigating but massively over-litigating a rather simple case.
It is shocking how retarded the parties are in this suite.

Montegraph: Retarded grifter thinking he can win.
Rekieta: Retarded grifter thinking he can monetize this lawsuit into a net positive.

Monetgraph's lawyer: paid by the hour and doesn't appear to respect rekieta at all.
Rekieta's lawyer: gets paid stupid amounts by the hour.

This lolsuit is almost as perfect a storm as the weeb wars had been. As soon as monty has a GFM we will achieve equilibrium. You will have a big money loud mouth that just bought a new vehicle claiming total victory soon™. The loud mouth has money behind him and industry support. The loud mouth shows off all of his expensive purchases and wife to own the haters. The loud mouth will become irate with kiwifarms and those calling him a cuck.

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