New motion dropped today, but I don't see any links to the full document as of yet.
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Holy shit, there
was a sketchy legal strategy behind the Rekieta subpoena, and it's only
mostly dumb.
I
previously speculated they were after Ty's text messages, to prove Ty was a bad person by discussing strategy and documents with Rekieta. Turns out they're after
Vic's texts, for the strategy I thought Ty would be discussing.
I don't know why it would be relevant that Vic considered MoRonica his enemies before or after an article came out. His feelings don't change the facts of their defamation or TI. Maybe I'm mistaken, but anti-SLAPP rulings don't hinge on the plaintiff's state of mind, only on the potential legal merits of the suit.
@AnOminous am I understanding that right?
In any case, it's too bad these exceptional superlolyers and MoRonica's didn't scan the Exhibits on Funimations's TCPA filing. You know, the one that has
articles from January 2015, and tweets from Monical Rial on Feb 4th,
before Nick heard about the Vic situation (according to Nick on a stream). Nick's first stream on Vic was the 11th, and I think he said he heard about it the day before; the GFM went up on February 17th-18th.
That puts 7 articles from Funi's Exhibits released before any enemies list would be drawn up between the two. And that's just Polygon and ANN, it doesn't include the
other sites which might have covered it.
I can acknowledge this as a legitimate discovery concern, but it's a stretch. Even if some kind of a list exists, it's a discussion of legal strategy for redress of wrongs, and it doesn't warrant a TCPA dismissal. Especially since MoRonica have not yet filed the anti-SLAPP motion which might necessitate the discovery.
Edit: Clarifying TL;DR - this sounds like MoRonica are going for another stab at the "everybody was talking about it" defense if the articles came out first. But that doesn't change the fact of Ron's texts to KamehaCon (TI), "100 women" tweets (defamation), Monica's public assertion of facts while articles reported on rumors, etc.