- Joined
- Mar 21, 2019
On the flipside, opposing counsels (like BHBH) putting together a SLAPP-proof lawsuit is just as automatic as trying to beat it via anti-SLAPP. So putting all your hopes on the most obvious tactic is just... silly.
They'd know that. If they'd gotten a lawyer.
These absolute idiots nuked that defense from orbit when they extorted an illegal breach of contract by threatening to illegally breach their own contract.
Any of that other bullshit, as flimsy and against the case law as it is, completely flies out the window now. No matter what Vic did, it doesn't matter. You can't illegally breach a contract or threaten to do it to get someone else to breach a contract illegally themselves.
This is actually dumber than what Mark Waid did, because when Waid committed his supreme stupidity, he had no knowledge he was in legal jeopardy.
These utter fucking morons committed the most brazenly illegal act of tortious interference (and possibly even criminal extortion) after having already been put on notice that everything they do was going to be put under a fucking microscope and there was a fully funded $100K war chest just to start up the process of burning them to the ground.
It doesn't surprise me that they'd pull the 'if he shows we won't show' card, because by all accounts Sean did this exact same thing to Peter Kelamis last year at Kamehacon (it got out because Peter tattled on him to social media, and Sean eventually retracted it and all parties pretended that's not what he did).
So they have a habit of extorting Kamehacon in particular by threatening to walk. I can see why they thought they could do it again - I'm guessing the threat of charges originally was because they knew Vic was worth too much to the con to pull that with him, while Kelamis doesn't matter. What's baffling is that they'd step it up to this level of screaming harassment when they KNEW that Kamehacon was sympathetic toward Vic and on some level in contact with him and his legal team. Why would you light yourself on fire just to try to put out the house? It's breathtakingly stupid and totally shattered any chance for those three to come out unscathed.