There should be no settlement beyond "If Russ drops this retardation Null won't pursue damages." Short of that, if this site is to continue in its current form, the only reasonable solution for Josh is to break Russell. Get a favorable ruling and extract as much as possible out of him as a warning to any other lolcow that wants to try their luck.
Of course, but as AnOminous says, Null has to look after his own interest too. But that gets into hypotheticals that have not happened yet. Like running out of lawyer money. (Though I like to think that if the defense fund was running low, another fundraiser would be solve it because fuck Russ.)
I'll see if I can explain the situation:
No. The only way he'll settle is getting his thread deleted. But speaking of Melinda, perhaps his history of lolsuits can be used to get him labeled a vexatious litigant, which will cripple future lolsuits.
There was a 2020 custody case in Iowa where the husband invoked trial by combat where he wanted,
This Seattle KIRO 7 article mentions husband's pro se argument for combat.
The resolution to this proposal was interesting. Rather than denying his request because trial by combat is not a remedy he was instead ordered to undergo psychological evaluation. After that the case dropped off the news radar. The Greer case is already off the rails maybe it could have a show stopper ending with the first case of trial by combat in the US this century.
It's actually really really hard to get this, because the courts don't like "blocking future remedies" - even vexatious litigants only get restrictions on how they can file, not denied filing entirely. Basically they have to have a judge approve them filing, and that bar is actually pretty low, basically "this seems reasonable if the facts are as stated and there's not obvious reasons not to" - a bar they fall short of often.
Sometimes I think these Don Quixotes were born too late and would've been great, honorable men had they lived in their preferred time period, but then I realize if he had flourished in Feudal Japan he'd just get himself killed, or he'd be just as much of a loser in that environment and wish he'd been born in the days of the Ainu or whatever.
The primary concern in a custody case is the best interests of the child, which the result of a combat is completely irrelevant to. The parents can't just say fuck the welfare of the child and sign away the rights of the child to a fair resolution.
In the original suit, Russ demanded $3.3 million, because for some reason he believes his terrible songs and
Damn, I completely misread the OP. Thanks for correcting that.
This sounds like something a weak ass faggot would say. ANYONE knows that a child raised by a heckin' badass who wins knife fights and all sorts of fights would be much better off than one not raised by such a winner.
Can you have reputational and emotional damage in copyright infringement? Seems weird
Absolutely. Have you heard his songs or read his book? That's the most damaging thing of all - a wider audience.
Maybe, but they'd have to prove it. It would also possibly be making new law since I'm not aware of any set of circumstances where it would be granted. It would also probably not be under statutory copyright but something like the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) which only covers visual works, not text or music.
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-Circle back is the appeal that got this case restarted.-
That was the harassment and defamation claims that he later abandoned on appeal.
