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

[RodgerDodger]

I think the other thing that people often miss is that the first amendment applies to the government. It simply means that they cannot censor you or arrest you for your speech along with the other rights described in the amendment.

However it doesn't grant you a podium, require anyone else to yield you theirs, or even extend to private individuals or organizations. You're free to yell all you want about god being a lie in the public square, but do so in a church and you can be asked to leave. If you don't, you'll be arrested for trespassing, but not blasphemy or the content of your speech.

About the only examples I can think of offhand where speech becomes a criminal matter (defamation is a civil offense) are highly specific examples of incitement to violence (to the point where it appears a person is giving clear orders and becomes an accessory to any crime committed) or filing a false police report, which is only a misdemeanor in most jurisdictions and often difficult to prove because the state needs to prove that you knowingly and intentionally made false statements and merely weren't misremembering a situation.

I suppose child pornography and revenge porn laws fall into that category as well. Strong free speech advocates should probably argue that both of those should be okay (but you can get into other interesting arguments along copyright or unlawful use of name or likeness to skirt around the issue) but most people hate pedophiles so much that it doesn't bother them if they're being a little hypocritical in that case.

Incitement to violence, direct threat to violence, conspiracy to commit a crime, can all fall in there. Also with some modern interpretations of “action or location = speech” such as for protests you get some fun ancillary ones such as “Interference with emergency operations” a personal favorite of mine. Or the cops favorite standby “making a public ass of yourself to the degree that the cop has to deal with it.”

 

[instythot]

Do we know which lawyers to expect to be present from Ty’s side?

A tactic I would approve of would be to bring the deposition lady back and put her in charge of objecting to things Casey says to demonstrate that bhbh won't be bullied by morons, and also to infuriate the sexist representative of Ronnie and Monnie who already thought he put a woman in her place

 

[DragoonSierra]

So, recently TUG showed DMs with hanleia where hanleia said something interesting about "jumping the gun" on the Vic accusations. On Nick's stream I see Kara Edwards mention contacting Funi in 2019 prior to the firing. Her email dates to February 8, where she says several people directed her to submit. I wonder who those people are, and if one of them was holding the gun hanleia was supposed to listen for.

Wasnt he fired officially at the end of January?

 

[Loose Handle]

Wasnt he fired officially at the end of January?

Well, that would be a Whoopsie in her affidavit.

 

[TheClappening]

Wasnt he fired officially at the end of January?

January 29th. (From Vic's original complaint)

This would mean Kara's story had no bearing on the Denbow investigation, but it had a hand in Funimation making their public statement.

 

[Harvey Danger]

Wasnt he fired officially at the end of January?

He was fired on Jan 29th, Funi's tweet announcing it was Feb 11th. I believe there were articles talking about the firing on Feb 4th, with Monica's tweets cited in it, but can't double check that right now.

I had pointed out Lemoine lying about the timeline, where it looked like his goal was to blame the articles for the con firings. But I don't think we ever nailed down who leaked the Funi firing to ANN, did we?

Edit: partially cougared, but still worth noting Monica was going public at the same time.

 

[Reverend]

Do we know which lawyers to expect to be present from Ty’s side?

I'm putting $100 on Ty doing it. That southern drawl is going to sound brutal going against LemonJellos' wheezing and casey's North accent.

Triple Word Score: Ty says "Bless their heart" during the proceedings.

 

[AnOminous]

However it doesn't grant you a podium, require anyone else to yield you theirs, or even extend to private individuals or organizations. You're free to yell all you want about god being a lie in the public square, but do so in a church and you can be asked to leave. If you don't, you'll be arrested for trespassing, but not blasphemy or the content of your speech.

This is a general fact about all rights. The fact that you have the right to do something doesn't mean you can do that thing in such a way that it deprives another person of their own rights. If there is any justification for a government existing at all, it is to decide between rights when they clash with each other.

 

[Loose Handle]

I'm sorry, it appears that I have exceptional reading skills today:

"Prior to learning that Mignogna had been fired from FUNimation this year, I sent a written statement... I learned after I had sent my statement to FUNimation that Mignogna had already been fired."

So, no Whoopsie on Edwards's part. Just mine.

 

[Far Queue]

January 29th. (From Vic's original complaint)
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This would mean Kara's story had no bearing on the Denbow investigation, but it had a hand in Funimation making their public statement.

Monica's assault story didn't factor in either. It was only the jelly bean incident. The first mention that Monica made alluding to assault appears to be on February 6th.

Monica Rial on Twitter: "Dropping in to say this: stop harassing my f…

archived 11 Feb 2019 05:34:56 UTC

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However, it wasn't until February 19th when any details of that alleged assault were made public, though it may have been shared with Funimation earlier than that. From some of the other information that has come out, it really looks like Monica and the others were really pushing for a public statement from Funimation so they made up additional "crimes" that they completely failed to mention earlier.

Does anyone have a good write-up on the Kara Edwards saga that followed on Twitter? She never had a thread of her own (and perhaps deserves one), so it seemed to get scattered all over instead of collected in any single place, which made it difficult to follow. My understanding is that she got called out pretty hard for terrible inconsistencies in her story.

Even more interesting is that Kara either had nothing to say about Vic when all of this first started going down (archive, archive) or she deleted all of her tweets from that time without them being archived, which is even harder to believe. It's pretty clear she was brought in later on. The first time she makes any public comment appears to be on February 5th (archive) in a response to a tweet by Monica about taking a Twitter break. Curiously just about the same time that Monica starts talking about her assault story, which she completely failed to mention as part of the investigation.

Searching Kara's Twitter she makes no mention of being assaulted or receiving harassment up until this year. She claims to have told many people about this assault (archive), but never names any of them.

 

[AnOminous]

Searching Kara's Twitter she makes no mention of being assaulted or receiving harassment up until this year. She claims to have told many people about this assault (archive), but never names any of them.

Funny how all these people's stories ended up on the same page at about the same time. It's almost like they actually talked to each other to get their stories straight before they started their lynch mob.

 

[Tour of Italy]

Funny how all these people's stories ended up on the same page at about the same time. It's almost like they actually talked to each other to get their stories straight before they started their lynch mob.

Well shit if only we had a legal term for that.

 

[Reverend]

Well shit if only we had a legal term for that.

Shock Jock Voice: "HEEERRREEEEEEE SAY?"

 

[Puff]

Shock Jock Voice: "HEEERRREEEEEEE SAY?"

Civil conspiracy-a tort that occurs when two or more persons conspire to do an unlawful act and injury is caused to another from the commission of that act.

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

Marc needs to tard-wrangle his minions better, I think.

What happened to Randazza anyway? I've not seen any tweets or other rumblings from him since December.

 

[mindlessobserver]

What happened to Randazza anyway? I've not seen any tweets or other rumblings from him since December.

His office is in Las Vegas. A 6 month cocaine bender is a possibility

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

What happened to Randazza anyway? I've not seen any tweets or other rumblings from him since December.

His office is in Las Vegas. A 6 month cocaine bender is a possibility

As we speak of that guy:

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[Capsaicin Addict]

As we speak of that guy:

Legal Profession Blog

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https://bbopublic.blob.core.windows.net/web/f/bd18-110.pdf

Marc Randazza May 2 2019 State Bar disciplinary hearing in Mass.

Audio recording of a May 2, 2019, state bar disciplinary hearing in Massachusetts involving disbarment proceedings against attorney Marc Randazza. This is Case No.BD-2018-110, styled In Re: Mark Joh

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Now that is weird.

According to Wikipedia (yeah, I know):

On July 23, 2018, an automatic appeal was filed with the Nevada Supreme Court regarding a guilty plea and disciplinary recommendation made by the Southern Nevada Disciplinary Panel. The recommendation came after the Disciplinary Panel found true allegations of violations of Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct 1.4 (Communication), 1.7 (Conflict of Interest: Current Clients), 1.8 (Conflict of Interest: Current Clients: Specific Rules), 1.10 (Imputation of Conflicts of Interest), 1.15 (Safekeeping Property), 1.16 (Declining or Terminating Representation), 2.1 (Advisor), 5.6 (Restrictions on Right to Practice), and 8.4 (Misconduct).[17][18]

In October 2018, Randazza was disciplined and given a one year suspension for ethical violations by the State Bar of Nevada,[19] which was upheld by the Supreme Court of Nevada.[citation needed] Said suspension was stayed, however, with the requirement that he avoid subsequent ethics complaints for the 18 months following entry of the order, complete 20 hours of CLE classes, and pay the costs associated with the proceedings within 30 days.

On January 14, 2019, the Arizona State Bar issued a public reprimand and a suspension based upon some of the misconduct that took place in Nevada.[20] A new disciplinary case was opened in Arizona and California based upon further information and documentation of alleged misconduct by Randazza, to include lying in court documents related to the Alex Jones case in Connecticut.[21]

On May 2, 2019, in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in a state bar disciplinary proceeding styled In re: Mark John Randazza, Case No. BD-2018-110, a disbarment hearing was conducted regarding an additional ethical violation that the State Bar of Nevada ignored.[22] The State Bar in Florida will be conducting a similar disbarment hearing on May 3, 2019.[23]

It may be he's a fuckup, or someone REALLY doesn't like him. Defending such 'unpersons' as Andrew Anglin, Alex Jones, etc would most certainly draw the ire of SJW activist types.

 

[Clockwork Dragon]

Randazza is extremely abrasive (at least in his online communications) so I suppose it is very possible he seriously pissed someone off. He has never struck me as a fuckup, and he seems quite zealous about 1st Amendment stuff, but he has zero qualms about being offensive. My guess is someone has a serious hateboner for him. Because in Year 2019, you can't SAY that!!

 

[AnOminous]

It may be he's a fuckup, or someone REALLY doesn't like him. Defending such 'unpersons' as Andrew Anglin, Alex Jones, etc would most certainly draw the ire of SJW activist types.

Unsurprisingly for the HuffPo, they dishonestly describe it as a "disbarment hearing" when they weren't even at the penalty phase and in fact, he wasn't disbarred, just suspended as reciprocal discipline for the Nevada case. And it's actually quite unusual for a bar association to go after you because they don't think another bar association was hard enough on you.

Randazza is a brilliant lawyer, a real pain in the ass, has no problem pissing people off, and apparently, has played fast and loose with legal ethics, which can be rather dangerous if you like making lots of enemies who are politically well placed.

Huffington Post as a "reliable source" for someone they clearly absolutely hate, whose clients they want to see destroyed, is standard Wikipedia bias.