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

Guess the question now is, how long after judge Chupp ruling that all Contractors are employees tell the IRS are on FUNI's doorstep?
 
wickedlilium said:
Guess the question now is, how long after judge Chupp ruling that all Contractors are employees tell the IRS are on FUNI's doorstep?
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if they are ruled to be employees the IRS will be on their asses before the judge has finished talking. jk of course but expect it to take no longer than 3 days
 
wickedlilium said:
Guess the question now is, how long after judge Chupp ruling that all Contractors are employees tell the IRS are on FUNI's doorstep?
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It's probably nowhere near a guaranteed thing, but even if there are reasonable odds that it could happen, Funimation (or rather Sony) won't let it get that far. If there's even a hint of that succeeding, they will settle. They could probably give Vic guaranteed work and hand BHBH enough ammunition to go after everyone else in the suit (and a few people who might be joining in round 2) that they could get out relatively cheap as well.

If you're looking at the potential for several millions of dollars in back taxes, even a 30% chance of that occurring creates too much risk.
 
Far Queue said:
It's probably nowhere near a guaranteed thing, but even if there are reasonable odds that it could happen, Funimation (or rather Sony) won't let it get that far. If there's even a hint of that succeeding, they will settle. They could probably give Vic guaranteed work and hand BHBH enough ammunition to go after everyone else in the suit (and a few people who might be joining in round 2) that they could get out relatively cheap as well.

If you're looking at the potential for several millions of dollars in back taxes, even a 30% chance of that occurring creates too much risk.
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Considering Nick's been pointing out that there is quite a bit of things that Funi does that could be argued that the contractors are indeed employee's, do you really think Sony is even watching, or keeping updates on all of this?
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony just let Funi go bankrupt for their failures to follow the laws, file bankruptcy and try to pocket as much as they can.
I'm also assuming that a subsidiary company wouldn't pull in the parent company considering it's set up where they get to run their business like a separate company.
 
wickedlilium said:
Considering Nick's been pointing out that there is quite a bit of things that Funi does that could be argued that the contractors are indeed employee's, do you really think Sony is even watching, or keeping updates on all of this?
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony just let Funi go bankrupt for their failures to follow the laws, file bankruptcy and try to pocket as much as they can.
I'm also assuming that a subsidiary company wouldn't pull in the parent company considering it's set up where they get to run their business like a separate company.
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It is probably tami denbow + Sony general council e-mail funi execs and lawyer. I doubt Sony care/have a competent person aware. There are probably high ups at Sony that get a e-mail in 30 words or less about the situation every other week. Most likely as far as most of Sony is concerned, it is just some jilted ex-employee suing.

As for the second part there really is no way for Sony to dump all judgement debts onto FUNI and claim they had nothing to do with it. They might have been able to try if THEIR H.R. agent wasn't involved directly. Either way I doubt a multi billion dollar corporation would be able to avoid simple asset seizure from a U.S. court. The most likely result will be a few years litigating it over and over, until the Texas supreme court slaps it down or they give up.
 
repentance said:
It's not a question before Chupp's court.
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Yeah. What would happen is the IRS would be notified and they would open up their own investigation. After the investigation, if deemed required, it would then go to court.
 
Markorian said:
They're going to start claiming that if the tcpa hearing doesn't go perfectly for them to seed that narrative.
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Remember that Grugory claimed you'd have to be a complete idiot for there not to be a 101% chance Vic loses absolutely everything because he has no case at all.

My personal prediction is there's at least something Vic loses on, KV loses on most things, so when KV files the inevitable (and allowed by statute) interlocutory appeal of the partial (and possibly total) denial of their TCPAs, Vic himself files a cross appeal of anything he lost on.

Considering the general assholery of the defendants I wouldn't be surprised to see yet another Texas Supreme Court decision on the TCPA that was supposed to stop litigation foolishness.
 
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wickedlilium said:
Guess the question now is, how long after judge Chupp ruling that all Contractors are employees tell the IRS are on FUNI's doorstep?
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It isn't the IRS that wants that ruling. Monica and Marchi do. That's where it can get ugly. If they are in fact actual employees of Funimation they might be entitled to some form of indemnification for attorney's fees etc.
 

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Markorian said:
I think there's a good chance it's at least in Ty's response Nick is reading tonight. It shoots down their vicarious liability defense.
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It's referenced but they're not asking the court to determine the employment status of people.

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AnOminous said:
Considering the general assholery of the defendants I wouldn't be surprised to see yet another Texas Supreme Court decision on the TCPA that was supposed to stop litigation foolishness.
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The legislation itself was recently amended to address some of the bullshit but this lawsuit was filed before the amendment was passed.
 
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(Crossposting because whatever)
The Spednaught arguing at Nick over the authentication of Vic's resume to justify Michele's story
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Is this Lane person supposedly a Lolyer? Because he would seem to be arguing things that mean the exact opposite of what he is arguing? The Plaintiff is the non-movant in this motion. And he's arguing that they will consider All evidence etc, without realizing that the rules of evidence for what they consider would rather clearly still apply.
 
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