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

DragoonSierra said:
Isnt that what Knox v Taylor was literally about though? Better not send those lawsuits to cons in Texas.
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It's one of many things it was about.

In reaching its decision, the Beaumont Court of Appeals relied on De Mankowski v. Ship Channel Dev. Co., wherein the Galveston Civil Court of Appeals stated:

“The privilege accorded a litigant which exempts him from liability for damages caused by false charges made in his pleadings, or in the court in the course of a judicial proceeding, cannot be enlarged into a license to go about in the community and make false and slanderous charges against his court adversary and escape liability for damages caused by such charges on the ground that he had made similar charges in his court pleadings.”

Id. at 196 (quoting 300 S.W. 118, 122 (Tex.Civ.App.-Galveston 1927, no writ)).
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Gehenna said:
Now, IANAL, but I know a thing or two about privileged information. May does not -begin- to cover what Ron making that information public opens up for Pandora's box. The core concept of spousal privilege (And any other form of informational privilege) is that something about the situation (Being married, being in a position of authority, etc.) provides you a level of access to information that revealing said information in court would infringe upon.
I.E. If the court were to force a lawyer to discuss what a husband says to a wife, it would inherently rip apart the social fabric that makes up the family bond, and this could be abused really badly.
BUT, once you reveal that information publicly (And try to claim it falls under that), you just null and voided that privilege ENTIRELY. This doesn't just make a statement open to cross examination, it opens up everything they'd try to file under that privilege.


Two words, Christopher Sabat.

The only man involved in this who could match Vic for name recognition in the games industry, a man with more wealth and authority than Vic. Envy cannot be this man's sin, only Pride can be. Pride that he knows what is best for the industry and that he will destroy anyone who views as not fitting HIS perfect vision. If he does not purely embody the sin of Pride, no one does.
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If I recall, Edward Elric demolished Pride in the anime. Turned him into a baby. Also strange that Vic voiced a staunch atheist who punches God to death.
 
Was he that much of an atheist in FMA:B? I know that was played up in the first anime, but FMA:B did have Truth as a very real being.
 
It seems to me there is a coordinated effort between Ty Beard and Nick Rekieta to try and convince Toye and Rial that their case is hopeless in an effort to get them to settle and provide evidence that can be used against the one defendant that has money.

There is probably a fairly painless way out of this case available to them right now.
 
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Loose Handle said:
Was he that much of an atheist in FMA:B? I know that was played up in the first anime, but FMA:B did have Truth as a very real being.
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kinda yes. He actively opposes Truth. Basically going the whole "What is a god to a nonbeliever?" spiel
 
Micah Livingston said:
It seems to me there is a coordinated effort between Ty Beard and Nick Rekieta to try and convince Toye and Rial that their case is hopeless in an effort to get them to settle and provide evidence that can be used against the one defendant that has money.

There is probably a fairly painless way out of this case available to them right now.
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I'm not sure that's the case or if it would even be worth trying. Their testimony is worthless. I think they're just trying to nuke them from orbit at this point.
 
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Any ideas on when we can expect BHBH's response? Can they file it the day before the hearing to give the defendents less time to prepare?
 
Make Anime Illegal said:
Any ideas on when we can expect BHBH's response? Can they file it the day before the hearing to give the defendents less time to prepare?
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Maybe. There's no specific deadline for TCPA responses, unlike other motions like summary judgment motions. However, at least one response was thrown out for being filed 15 minutes before the hearing, so anything perceived as just deliberate gamesmanship to prejudice the other party is likely to be frowned upon.

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I can't find a local rule that would impose a shorter deadline, either.

I think they could probably file a day or two before the hearing and get away with it, but they might be more cautious. It's pretty arguable, though, that dumping this mountain of garbage on the court and on them caused them to have to spend unnecessarily long on it.

Look at some of this crap, like some random table of cases from the Spednaught. What is that even supposed to mean? There's no argument in it, no explanation as to what it is, and no citations to it. Exhibits are thrown in haphazardly, there's something like three "Exhibit As" and it's basically a huge fucking mess like they just printed a bunch of random documents and threw them together at random, printed sideways, illegibly, unsearchably, and otherwise in garbage formats even though they're from the Internet and could easily have been in a searchable PDF format AS THE RULES REQUIRE.
 
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AnOminous said:
I'm not sure that's the case or if it would even be worth trying. Their testimony is worthless. I think they're just trying to nuke them from orbit at this point.
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They must see some strategic value in warning them how bad the TCPA hearing is going to go for them in a couple weeks. Rekieta's plane ticket costs money and they gave away information about how they plan to respond.

You don't think a cooperating Rial and Toye could make the Funimation TCPA easier to defeat?
 
Micah Livingston said:
You don't think a cooperating Rial and Toye could make the Funimation TCPA easier to defeat?
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I think it would make it more difficult to prove how much damage they caused because they would no longer be adversarial. I also think that everyone knows how badly it is going to go (at least for Ron and Monica) and why. I think the only people who don't are idiots like Law Twitter.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Nope. The 8th is the big day for everyone. But let's not think this is endgame. We are nowhere near a trial yet
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The question for Funimation is "Is it worth dying on this hill for two over-the-hill, wannabee costhots?" Voice actors are dime a dozen.

Also are woke points worth the good will of your customers.

And Funi could drag this out but it sounds like Monica and Ron are about to start asking for tips on eating their shoes.

So if Funi appeals but other parties want to settle, does the TCPA interfere with that?

Micah Livingston said:
It seems to me there is a coordinated effort between Ty Beard and Nick Rekieta to try and convince Toye and Rial that their case is hopeless in an effort to get them to settle and provide evidence that can be used against the one defendant that has money.

There is probably a fairly painless way out of this case available to them right now.
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Vic does want this to go away. But Ty and Nick decided to fight this in public.

Monica won't settle til Funi settles. Monica doesn't want to lose "credibility" that she would give up recanting.
 
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Garm said:
The question for Funimation is "Is it worth dying on this hill for two over-the-hill, wannabee costhots?" Voice actors are dime a dozen.

Also are woke points worth the good will of your customers.

And Funi could drag this out but it sounds like Monica and Ron are about to start asking for tips on eating their shoes.

So if Funi appeals but other parties want to settle, does the TCPA interfere with that?



Vic does want this to go away. But Ty and Nick decided to fight this in public.

Monica won't settle til Funi settles. Monica doesn't want to lose "credibility" that she would give up recanting.
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They didn't really choose to fight it in public, they chose to fight BACK in public, when the fight was already public due to the defendants.
 
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MCG_Raven said:
kinda yes. He actively opposes Truth. Basically going the whole "What is a god to a nonbeliever?" spiel
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I don't recall that. It's also tough to oppose Truth as Truth isn't the one pulling the strings. Truth is involved with Ed to test him, so there will naturally be an antagonistic relationship, but there is no other plan beyond that for Ed to possibly foil. And in the end, Ed comes to the answer Truth wanted from him. "You've done it! That's the right answer! Good job, you beat me! Go ahead, take him home!"

In fact, looking at the whole ending exchange again, it is very Christian, right out of Matthew 5:29.
 
AnOminous said:
Maybe. There's no specific deadline for TCPA responses, unlike other motions like summary judgment motions. However, at least one response was thrown out for being filed 15 minutes before the hearing, so anything perceived as just deliberate gamesmanship to prejudice the other party is likely to be frowned upon.

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I can't find a local rule that would impose a shorter deadline, either.

I think they could probably file a day or two before the hearing and get away with it, but they might be more cautious. It's pretty arguable, though, that dumping this mountain of garbage on the court and on them caused them to have to spend unnecessarily long on it.

Look at some of this crap, like some random table of cases from the Spednaught. What is that even supposed to mean? There's no argument in it, no explanation as to what it is, and no citations to it. Exhibits are thrown in haphazardly, there's something like three "Exhibit As" and it's basically a huge fucking mess like they just printed a bunch of random documents and threw them together at random, printed sideways, illegibly, unsearchably, and otherwise in garbage formats even though they're from the Internet and could easily have been in a searchable PDF format AS THE RULES REQUIRE.
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Is there some sort of strategy behind putting such a trash fire foreword as your pleading or are they just bad at this?
 
Loose Handle said:
I don't recall that. It's also tough to oppose Truth as Truth isn't the one pulling the strings. Truth is involved with Ed to test him, so there will naturally be an antagonistic relationship, but there is no other plan beyond that for Ed to possibly foil. And in the end, Ed comes to the answer Truth wanted from him. "You've done it! That's the right answer! Good job, you beat me! Go ahead, take him home!"

In fact, looking at the whole ending exchange again, it is very Christian, right out of Matthew 5:29.
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basically a question of interpretation: To me Ed was trying to do the opposite of what Truth wanted (he didn't KNOW this was the answer Truth was looking for after all)
 
mindlessobserver said:
Is there some sort of strategy behind putting such a trash fire foreword as your pleading or are they just bad at this?
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Maybe they haven't been paid. Maybe MoRon insisted on putting all this garbage in there and they went along with it like cucks. So much of it is rhetoric that a judge will just roll his eyes at but will impress morons on Twitter.
 
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