Even if Hardin was "on his knees begging for mediation" as Russ says, and then pulled out of it when DJF dropped Russ because he thought he's an "easy target", so what?
It's completely within Null's rights and makes perfect sense that he'd consider mediation when Russ has free lawyers who actually managed a win, but not when they're gone and the idiot who already lost the case before and has never won a case in his life is the only one his real lawyer is up against. Why would the judge be shocked by this?
As I've aid before, Russ has the right idea when he emails Hardin "I'M DEFINITELY GOING TO WIN ANYWAY, SO WHY DON'T YOU DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND SETTLE? MUWAHHAHA!" but immediately ruins it when constantly whining to the judge "Me too stupid to know how to law! I don't know what I'm doing, it's all French to me, I'm trying my best!!!" Why would anyone be intimidated that?
This also goes back to how every time Russ is handed a loss, he turns around and copies it in one of his lawsuits, not knowing why the same move that worked on him doesn't work on others: in this case, the AGT lawsuit. Russ signed an arbitration agreement and then sued, arguing it didn't apply, and AGT submitted to the judge an email where Russ said he would accept mediation if they would pay the $7000 for his share, which they readily agreed to, yet Russ still insisted on suing against the contract he signed. Russ argued that this was "reverse psychology" because he thought they'd never agree to pay his share of mediation, so never actually meant to agree to it. Now, he flips it around and seems to think the fact that Null was once willing to come to the table means he's ironbound to accept mediation, when of course, this situation doesn't apply, since Null never signed an arbitration agreement like Russell did with AGT