Ron’s rantings are just more of same. He is an ongoing font of nonstop defamation. BHBH will note that in their filings. And probably ask for an immediate injunction on his continued defamation.
That is an unusual and extreme remedy, but so is the behavior. Generally injunctions against continued defamation are disfavored, and invariably raise issues of prior restraint under the First Amendment.
There may be enough here to weigh in favor of it, though. It's also a question of how much money to spend on such things. TROs on defamation are quite often ex parte, that is, without the other party present, and require all the evidence in favor of the TRO be presented up front all at once and, for that matter, the moving party is obligated to argue any facts or law in favor of the party not present.
This generally requires putting together a rather large dossier within a period of a few hours to a couple of days, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of pages long, as well as a full brief of all the issues, and then putting together multiple bound copies of what is often multiple volumes of legal argument and evidence. It's not at all unusual to have several piles of documents several feet high for this kind of thing, and then you have to serve a paper copy on everyone in the suit who would be affected by it, as well as for the court.
So you could easily be out thousands just on printing costs.
Then if you actually get the injunction, you usually have to put up a bond, $10,000 being a bare minimum of the kind of thing you'd have to put up, and this is held in escrow by the court. If it turns out you filed in bad faith or even just that you lose and the injunction being in place damaged the party it was filed against, you forfeit that toward damages and may have to pay additional damages.
It's a pretty expensive process, or at least can be, although in this case, SoyeBoye has really gone out of his way to provide all the evidence needed. The legal argument part of it is still tough and still has to be done on absurdly short notice and this kind of stuff is expensive.
And then, the TRO is issued with an expire by date for a lengthier hearing shortly thereafter, so it may only buy you a few days before you have to have yet another hearing on it. Now, if you win that, you have a temporary injunction that continues throughout the pendency of the case. If you ultimately win the case, you may end up with a permanent injunction.
Another issue is that the granting (or denial) of a preliminary injunction is a matter immediately appealable, so the issue could end up in an appeals court before the case is even decided.
Anyway, those are issues BHBH has to take into consideration when deciding whether it's worth seeking an injunction right at the outset and, if it is worth it, whether it's worth seeking on an emergency basis to take effect immediately, a more arduous undertaking.
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