Victor Mignogna v. Funimation Productions, LLC, et al. (2019) - Vic's lawsuit against Funimation, VAs, and others, for over a million dollars.

[AnOminous]

If he's not being paid, he can drop the case at any point in time. Might come as a shock but slavery is illegal in the USA.

It depends what you said in the engagement letter or representation agreement and what you led your client to believe about what you were agreeing to do. You can agree to any kind of payment terms that are fair. For instance, a criminal defense lawyer could agree to take a flat $10K for the case, and be bound to it no matter how expensive it got. The same could occur in a civil case.

Generally, if you know the client only has a certain amount of money, though, you can't just take their money and instantly drop them the moment more doesn't show up if you led them to believe this was the cost of representation. A court can refuse your motion to withdraw, if it's at a point in the case where you can't simply withdraw without cause.

Now, nobody in their right mind would issue an engagement letter agreeing to this, but we are dealing with Super Lawyers here.

 

[JoyfulDarter]

Its just like Nick or Ty says, the law is one thing, but the human element cannot be ignored and in that element Vic reigns supreme.

It's one of the more unique things about this case where Vic is effectively dealing with a self-contained cabal that's completely divorced from reality in its own little bubble. People who do voices for cartoons who have an extremely bloated view of their own importance. Vic seems like one of the few ones that's humble and understands that anime isn't actually that important in the scheme of things, it's the relationship with the fans that's important.

 

[repentance]

Its just like Nick or Ty says, the law is one thing, but the human element cannot be ignored and in that element Vic reigns supreme.

I don't know whether they're natural mannerisms or acquired ones, but Vic's use of "sir" when answering opposing counsel and his soft but clear voice will not be lost on a jury.

How are you going to convince them that this respectful, quietly spoken lad (because in spite of his age, that's how they will see him) could ever be forceful towards women when they're going to be picturing him opening doors and laying his cloak across puddles?

 

[JohnDoe]

How are you going to convince them that this respectful, quietly spoken lad (because in spite of his age, that's how they will see him) could ever be forceful towards women when they're going to be picturing him opening doors and laying his cloak across puddles?

Its going to be very hard for the jury to imagine Vic as being some kind of forceful monster when he's such an old school masculine Chad. He's not a Texan, or even Southern, but he projects that old-school manly confidence and charm that people inherently trust and like. Vic is a man that when you meet, you like immediately - Ron is insufferable from the word go. If I (or a jury) had to pick the rapist from between them, its obviously Ron.

 

[Wake me up]

you can't just take their money and instantly drop them the moment more doesn't show up

I doubt even our super lolyers here are exceptional enough to represent themselves to MoRon in advance as willing to work a million-dollar-plus litigation-heavy defamation case for $10k, much less 3 distinct law firms to do it at the same time for the same dumb client. There is also zero prospect of being awarded contingency either.

The exception might be Lesoyne, who might be in a medical emergency and need immediate funds for a CPAP machine. from the sound of his voice, he might be desperate to work just so he can afford to live another day!

 

[AStupidMonkey]

I don't know whether they're natural mannerisms or acquired ones, but Vic's use of "sir" when answering opposing counsel and his soft but clear voice will not be lost on a jury.

How are you going to convince them that this respectful, quietly spoken lad (because in spite of his age, that's how they will see him) could ever be forceful towards women when they're going to be picturing him opening doors and laying his cloak across puddles?

Considering it's a red county in Texas, even a video of Vic not holding a door open for a lady could be potentially damning.

And they don't even have that.

 

[TheClappening]

Rate me late'n'gay if this was here already, but here's a PDF of screenshot compilations from the June 28th hearing, transcripted. Saw this on the Rackets discord.

 

[ErbBetaPatch]

Rate me late'n'gay if this was here already, but here's a PDF of screenshot compilations from the June 28th hearing, transcripted. Saw this on the Rackets discord.

Nick read through this on part 2 of the Ron depo

 

[Blonde Bomb]

Vic is an actor, voice or otherwise. It's an actor's job to study people, to learn what word choice, inflection, posture, carriage, etc elicits what response from an audience. And it seems like he's damn good at it. He' ll knows what to say and how to say it to make the jury response to him favorably.

That and he seems (at least from a few brief interactions with him & from reading the transcriptions) damn charming & humble. That never hurts in a court of law.

 

[Wake me up]

Vic is an actor

His voice in and outside of deposition is like the difference between a dark night and the high-noon Sun. Anyone with a couple working ears could not have missed it. It's deliberate and he's killing it, because he's so damn good.

 

[mindlessobserver]

His voice in and outside of deposition is like the difference between a dark night and the high-noon Sun. Anyone with a couple working ears could not have missed it. It's deliberate and he's killing it, because he's so damn good.

It also helps if the truth is on your side too.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Its going to be very hard for the jury to imagine Vic as being some kind of forceful monster when he's such an old school masculine Chad. He's not a Texan, or even Southern, but he projects that old-school manly confidence and charm that people inherently trust and like. Vic is a man that when you meet, you like immediately - Ron is insufferable from the word go. If I (or a jury) had to pick the rapist from between them, its obviously Ron.

It’s going to be very hard for the jury to believe Vic “sexually assaulted” Monica Rial when they see them side by side and she stands a head taller and 100 lbs heavier than him.

 

[Super Smelly Vagina]

How much prep do you think Casey did with Soye?

I'm hard pressed to come up with any way that he could've come across as more smug and uncharacteristic, and I really can't imagine his attitude will play well. Is there any way he could be made more palatable to a Texas jury?

He probably made Soye watch "American Sniper" and a few western movies as a feeble attempt to make him act more like a man.

 

[Reverend]

He probably made Soye watch "American Sniper" and a few western movies as a feeble attempt to make him act more like a man.

I don't think there is enough Testosterone , Charisma, and Grit in the entirety of the John Wayne catalog of movies that could fill the soy sucking void of manliness that RonRon has inside him.

 

[JoyfulDarter]

It’s going to be very hard for the jury to believe Vic “sexually assaulted” Monica Rial when they see them side by side and she stands a head taller and 100 lbs heavier than him.

Surely after the "hundreds" of accounts about Vic started coming out of the anime/con circuit someone from his past as a police officer or teacher would have come forward by now. Weinstein, Cosby and Epstein have accusers that go back decades, wouldn't Vic if he were some kind of serial rapist?

 

[Emm]

If he's not being paid, he can drop the case at any point in time. Might come as a shock but slavery is illegal in the USA.

Well technically the 13th amendment does not outlaw slavery for convicted criminals.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

 

[Make Anime Illegal]

These are the 'solid links' on the PULL OP, as of Feb 18th, that Soye claimed he believed 'without question.'

Spoiler: Solid Links

A youtube video of Vic acting out a scene at a panel.

Acting flirtatious to an underaged girl. (The scene being acted out is from OHSHC between two teenagers, not a 54 year old man)

The picture of Vic kissing the ranger, who later came out to defend Vic. Links to the 'vicmegnoggnahorrorstories' blog that was deleted, which describes itself as a site "to collect stories (whether true or not)"

Image of Vic kissing a girl who is clearly uncomfortable

A link to a youtube search for the query 'Vic Mignogna kissed me'

A bunch of videos of similar behavior by Vic towards mostly young females

Another link to the tumblr blog. You can video of the "groping" Here.

An account of Vic groping his fans

The rest are also bullshit and have nothing to do with sexual misconduct at all.

• Openly expresses his disliking of Yaoi / tries to deny homosexual characters due to his evident homophobia
• Desperately denying two characters are gay and assuming gay relationships can only be sexual
• Dodges question about if he agrees on same sex marriage
• Admits to refusing to sign gay fanart The thought of his voiced characters being shipped with a dude makes him go "EWWW"Said yaoi fans are desperate for attention
• Vic made a Holocaust joke and he REFUSED to apologize

 

[HeyYou]

Well technically the 13th amendment does not outlaw slavery for convicted criminals.

Nah, that's referring to involuntary servitude, which does have some differences. People still call prison labor slavery anyways, and to be fair the South did use black criminals as pseudo-slaves for ages in the early 20th century.

 

[Julia Fortune]

Vic is an actor, voice or otherwise. It's an actor's job to study people, to learn what word choice, inflection, posture, carriage, etc elicits what response from an audience. And it seems like he's damn good at it. He' ll knows what to say and how to say it to make the jury response to him favorably.

That and he seems (at least from a few brief interactions with him & from reading the transcriptions) damn charming & humble. That never hurts in a court of law.

It's not like he's unfamiliar with proper acting either. I recommend watching his Star Trek series, he channels Kirk about as well as anyone possibly could have. Star Trek stays within a pretty basic, traditional mode of acting, but his work would easily pass on proper TV were legal troubles not involved with that show itself.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Finally gotten through all the depositions. Jesus christ what a dumpster fire this one is. Compare this to the other case that is fairly similar, between Meyer and Mark Waid. We are not seeing any drama coming out of that even though Waid is a humongous sperg and Meyer is always on the youtube. I cant for the life of me believe all these lawyers decided together this is a good idea. It has to be Monica and Ron frothing at the mouth to slag Vic that cause this debacle. It's also likely they flat out lied to their attorneys about how solid their claims were and by the time they figured out how stupid their clients were they had already committed to the legal strategy and there was no going back.

Keep in mind now. Casey Eric fought to have these depositions public and WON. Ty wanted a confidentiality agreement. So now the depositions are public and oh how glorious it is. Nick was completely wrong about this slowing down. But then he mistakenly assumed once the idiots lawyered up their counsel would not be as dumb as their clients.