I do wonder what Soye and Rial hope to come out in deposition. That vic has sex with women at conventions? If anything keeping things public may hurt them more then vic in the long run.
I almost suspect there's some reverse psychology at play in Ty being the one to offer the confidentiality agreement since Casey appears to be in a childish mode of just automatically opposing anything he does. That's ordinarily an okay strategy, since most things your opponent is going to do are going to be things you don't want done, but I don't think he really thought through this at all.
I think SoyeBoye and Monica will be utterly eviscerated in deposition and look like absolute shit, frankly, and don't anticipate Vic coming out that badly at all, even if some embarrassing things come out, which they always do. Nobody gets out of a deposition without having to answer questions they'd rather not, but as Ty pointed out, if you're filing a case like this you're going to dig out every thing that might come out in deposition and if you're going to get crucified, you seriously reconsider whether you should even file the case at all.
Defamation cases can be brutal and if you don't carefully vet what you file, you could end up with your reputation ruined even further than just letting matters take their own course.
The famous historical example would be when Oscar Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry for libel for calling him a "somdomite," which was true if misspelled, among other things. As it came out, his lawsuit accomplished nothing but actually outing him as having committed the crime of sodomy and he ended up going to jail.
So you really don't want to file defamation actions where bad stuff, possibly even worse stuff than the defamation, is going to come out and harm your reputation even further. The very fact that he even filed at all signifies he's fairly confident about that.
Ron and Monica on the other hand should be seriously concerned that if discovery kicks into high gear, it will uncover shit that could actually be prosecuted or referred to the DA by the judge.
Another thing Casey should be concerned about is collateral estoppel. This is a legal principle that if you rely on a certain fact or argument to your advantage at one stage in a legal proceeding, such as for instance this opposition to confidentiality, if the same fact is later relevant to some other issue, you're precluded from arguing the opposite of what you argued to prevail in the original matter.
So if they argue now that there's no reason for confidentiality of any kind and then spew their worst about Vic when they get his deposition, but it turns out their own are much worse, as in will utterly destroy their reputation and make them unemployable or even send them to jail, they'll have a hard time turning around and arguing that now this kind of stuff should be kept confidential.
