Nicholas Robert Rekieta / Rekieta "Law" / Actually Criminal / @NickRekieta - Polysubstance enthusiast, "Lawtuber" turned Dabbleverse streamer, swinger, "whitebread ass nigga", snuffs animals for fun, visits 🇯🇲 BBC resorts. Legally a cuckold who lost his license to practice law. Wife's bod worth $50. The normies even know.

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What would the outcome of the harassment restraining order be?

  • A WIN for the Toe against Patrick Melton.

    Votes: 64 18.1%
  • A WIN for the Toe against Nicholas Rekieta.

    Votes: 4 1.1%
  • A MAJOR WIN for the Toe, it's upheld against both of them.

    Votes: 93 26.3%
  • Huge L, felted, cooked etc, it gets thrown out.

    Votes: 55 15.6%
  • A win for the lawyers (and Kiwi Farms) because it gets postponed again.

    Votes: 137 38.8%

  • Total voters
    353
Rekieta is like a Greek tragedy. Fall from grace. Good lessons about humility and sexual depravation.

When Nick eventually passes out on stream because he drank himself into oblivion, there’s a 50/50 chance that a Greek chorus starts singing: “THERE LIES THE YOUTUBE LAW POPE! HUMBLED BY THE GODS! LARGE GREW HIS EGO, FELL BY THE BALDO!”

Patrick otoh is just a fat retard who never had much of a fall because he’s always been a fat retard.

I can see the attraction though.
No. In the hot tub during one of his LOLcals streams, not too far in the future. When he has completely alienated his audience and is streaming to nobody. As a result of consumption problems, he passes out and drowns in the hot tub. Three weeks later the local police find the... slow cooked remains of Nicholas Robert Rekieta while performing a wellness check.
 
It's my understanding that the fee shifting would only occur if Nick wins the appeal AND Judge Fisher dismissed the case on Colorado SLAPP grounds after it's sent back to her. In most (any?) other situations, it's each side bears their own costs (aka "The American System"). So Nick really needs to win on SLAPP grounds for this whole thing to not be a gigantic money sink for him.

Any of the the 3-4 lawyers in this thread will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure. IANAL.
I think that's right, but what happens if they win on SLAPP grounds and Monty has nothing to give? Is there any clause in the contract Balldo signed that says in that event fees bounce back to him or is it just good luck getting blood from a stone to Randazza? The amount of money for this case is probably absurd.
 
I think that's right, but what happens if they win on SLAPP grounds and Monty has nothing to give? Is there any clause in the contract Balldo signed that says in that event fees bounce back to him or is it just good luck getting blood from a stone to Randazza? The amount of money for this case is probably absurd.
I have a question regarding this too:
What happens if Nicky wins the question or whatever of where the lawsuit should take place (colorado? I think), then the judge decides to rule the SLAPP motion in favor of Monty (i.e. lawsuit has merit) followed by Rackets then losing the case.

Does he have to pay Monty a million dollars then?
 
Did any time during oral arguments Nick made a joke about oral sex?
No but Randazza has been performing anal sex on him with each and every bill.
So Nick really needs to win on SLAPP grounds for this whole thing to not be a gigantic money sink for him.
Montagraph doesn't have any money. No matter what its a money sink.
 
I have a question regarding this too:
What happens if Nicky wins the question or whatever of where the lawsuit should take place (colorado? I think), then the judge decides to rule the SLAPP motion in favor of Monty (i.e. lawsuit has merit) followed by Rackets then losing the case.

Does he have to pay Monty a million dollars then?
Sean and Null talked about this today:

If Balldo wins here, it goes to Colorado SLAPP and he can still just lose on that, so everything happening now is essentially a question of whether or not they're shopping for a venue or if the jurisdiction of lawsuit makes sense and can stay there, nothing else. Then if he loses SLAPP he's fucked as he owes Randazza fees, unless he can appeal it somehow, and then if Monty wins the case itself it's unknown what Monty will really get, could be a shit ton, could be an apology.
 
Sean and Null talked about this today:

If Balldo wins here, it goes to Colorado SLAPP and he can still just lose on that, so everything happening now is essentially a question of whether or not they're shopping for a venue or if the jurisdiction of lawsuit makes sense and can stay there, nothing else. Then if he loses SLAPP he's fucked as he owes Randazza fees, unless he can appeal it somehow, and then if Monty wins the case itself it's unknown what Monty will really get, could be a shit ton, could be an apology.
So the maximum balldodamage option is Rackets losing the SLAPP and then escalating it via appeals to the Supreme court?
 
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So the maximum balldodamage option is Rackets losing the SLAPP and then escalating it via appeals to the Supreme court?
I don't know if he can appeal the SLAPP as they're already at the appellate level from what I understand. The worst possible outcome for Balldo is if he loses SLAPP and then has a long drawn out trial, because Randazza charges a thousand an hour, as he said at Porc Fest, just for his time.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, I'm a retard on the Internet.
 
Here's a question, Randazza likes SLAPP statutes due to being able to bill the party that isn't their client, but what happens if Monty has nothing to pay Randazza with? Does he end up being able to claw back fees from Balldo?
He doesn't care. He already got his money just like the Rustang dealer got his money and just like the people Balldo bought his "art" from got their money. Do you think he's fronting this shit?
 
Yeah, you’re missing the first eight months of 2023. I don’t want to derail the thread but Nick being the best LOTY candidate doesn’t make the other cows boring.
I believe you, I'm just pointing out I'm not terribly familiar with what Pat did last year. Just like I think a lot of Pat and BMJ voters didn't follow this thread either and think the catfishing was the only thing (I definitely got that impression when reading some of the comments in the aftermath).

Anyways, @AltisticRight is right. It was a democratic vote. Rekieta won. Moving on.
 
Has Rekieta announced if he's doing a show tonight?

He can probably console himself that Randazza definitely did a better job making his argument than Monty's lawyer did. That doesn't mean that Monty doesn't have a better case, though, regardless, nor does it mean that even if he wins, he'll win back down at the trial court, which is where this is inevitably going anyway.
I think the way this works is that Rekieta wins his appeal, runs to the kitchen the night after the decision is released to stream himself sassily eating a Dorito, only to lose on the anti-SLAPP motion itself.

Here's a question, Randazza likes SLAPP statutes due to being able to bill the party that isn't their client, but what happens if Monty has nothing to pay Randazza with? Does he end up being able to claw back fees from Balldo?
No, Rekieta is still the one getting invoiced no matter what. Otherwise, in a case like this, he'd struggle to find a lawyer willing to represent him. If he wins at the appeals court AND wins on the anti-SLAPP motion, he is entitled to recover fees from Montagraph. There is still the possibility for a Balldo L there since the fees will be examined for reasonableness and, well, based on what Nick has said he's spent so far, I'm not sure whether he's not spent far more than is reasonable for this case.
 
He doesn't care. He already got his money just like the Rustang dealer got his money and just like the people Balldo bought his "art" from got their money. Do you think he's fronting this shit?
No, Rekieta is still the one getting invoiced no matter what. Otherwise, in a case like this, he'd struggle to find a lawyer willing to represent him. If he wins at the appeals court AND wins on the anti-SLAPP motion, he is entitled to recover fees from Montagraph. There is still the possibility for a Balldo L there since the fees will be examined for reasonableness and, well, based on what Nick has said he's spent so far, I'm not sure whether he's not spent far more than is reasonable for this case.
The way Randazza made it sound at Porc Fest was that he just bills the opposing party, now I thought he had some kind of refund to the client for the retainer and expenses, but if all Balldo gets for winning is an IOU from Monty that's hilarious. Congrats, Randazza got paid from your pocket and you won a piece of paper about as valuable as a liberal arts degree, you know, kind of like that creative writing degree. :story:
 
I don't know if he can appeal the SLAPP as they're already at the appellate level from what I understand. The worst possible outcome for Balldo is if he loses SLAPP and then has a long drawn out trial, because Randazza charges a thousand an hour, as he said at Porc Fest, just for his time.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, I'm a retard on the Internet.
Oof. 1k per hour?! Mindset said the other day his discount rate is 350 and his typical is 450. I assume this is his rate even when he dealt with corpo special districts cause he would have cited higher if it was.
 
Oof. 1k per hour?! Mindset said the other day his discount rate is 350 and his typical is 450. I assume this is his rate even when he dealt with corpo special districts cause he would have cited higher if it was.
Might be, though in his talk he described it as a 20k retainer, then 1k an hour but if he was feeling charitable or whatever he might go to a third of that, but that even then it would be over a hundred thousand in total. he described lawyers that charge a small retainer and 300 an hour as not great.

Also, amusing enough during that talk he talks about defamation being important for heinous accusations.

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Congrats, Randazza got paid from your pocket and you won a piece of paper about as valuable as a liberal arts degree, you know, kind of like that creative writing degree.
This right here is the ultimate folly of this entire lawsuit. Even if Nick "wins", he's still gonna lose, this entire situation should be a cautionary tale about learning to pick and choose your battles. His inability to swallow his pride and apologize for something he legitimately got wrong is going to cost him tens of thousands of dollars. Fascinating behavior.
 
This right here is the ultimate folly of this entire lawsuit. Even if Nick "wins", he's still gonna lose, this entire situation should be a cautionary tale about learning to pick and choose your battles. His inability to swallow his pride and apologize for something he legitimately got wrong is going to cost him tens of thousands of dollars. Fascinating behavior.
It's such a weird thing to get hung up on as well, as it's an extreme accusation with the only evidence being hearsay about a movie no one ever saw that turned out to be random shlock that could end up as a cult classic one day in the same way as Birdemic or The Room. Balldo could have apologized and in the same apology called Monty every name in the book besides the obvious ones that have context beyond calling someone a retard.
 
No, Rekieta is still the one getting invoiced no matter what. Otherwise, in a case like this, he'd struggle to find a lawyer willing to represent him. If he wins at the appeals court AND wins on the anti-SLAPP motion, he is entitled to recover fees from Montagraph. There is still the possibility for a Balldo L there since the fees will be examined for reasonableness and, well, based on what Nick has said he's spent so far, I'm not sure whether he's not spent far more than is reasonable for this case.
Right. Which means I think it's not unreasonable to think Rekieta has already taken an L no matter which way this ends.

I think, at this point, this case can best be described as trying to suss out how big of an L Rekieta will take.
 
I have a question regarding this too:
What happens if Nicky wins the question or whatever of where the lawsuit should take place (colorado? I think), then the judge decides to rule the SLAPP motion in favor of Monty (i.e. lawsuit has merit) followed by Rackets then losing the case.
It isn't about where the lawsuit should take place. Everyone agrees it's in Minnesota. It's about which laws get applied. Nick is arguing it's Colorado's that should get applied. So a Minnesota court should apply Colorado's laws. Because that's where Monty is (allegedly). And it should be using a Colorado law very similar to a law that Minnesota's Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional.

And from there it gets complicated.

The long is really long, but the short is that actually isn't as insane as it sounds, and is based on fairly sound precedent and legal principles.

I think this argument is bullshit, but Randazza did a really good job arguing this bullshit, and while Monty's lawyer did a fairly inept argument that was not bullshit, that doesn't mean he was wrong.

The questions of the three judge appellate counsel really didn't give strong indications how they were leaning. And that's good. Because they shouldn't have.
 
So I guess Nick is just a no show for tonight and didn't even give a heads up to whatever audience remains.

edit: sorry if this a standard practice, I'm not a social media genius like Nick.
 
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