So feel free to rate me late and gay for this, also this is gonna be a long post so I guess I should expect puzzle pieces, but about the whole "how much will El Chuppo give in sanctions" debate. Here's my 2 cents:
-You can bet your ass Fuhrer LemWAH is going to be asking for the whole gofundme and more. Now I know the more reasonable laws like
@P5Fever will immediately say this is incredibly *ejem* exceptional, but Lemoine is an oxygen deprived, mosquito-infected, brain-damaged loon, so "argument form common sense" is a big fallacy here, don't asume he is capable of understanding what he should be doing.
So. With that out of the way. The obvious question is what the hell would Chupp do. Now, the argument from the side saying he ain't gonna be exceptional is that he's just lazy. So let me get this out of the way first:
-Chupp is possibly more exceptional than Marchi. Now hear me out. Or better yet, just go read on his prior Writs of Mandamus courtesy of
@AnOminous. That ain't just lazy. What he did with the whole "who gets to represent the company", literally letting one side represent the company on a case about wether or not they have the right to do so, made his job HARDER, not easier, no amount of lazyness can explain that whole deal, so he ain't just lazy, he's a fucking idiot.
-Furthermore, check the hearing. Again, by firing from the hip like that he wasn't just being lazy, he was making his job harder than it needed to be. Why? Well if twitter and Nick are to be trusted (I'd say one is more tan the other, but either way), the reason is because he literally fears the Dallas Morning News. Let me be clear here: while I won't say this is definite, there is a strong possibility that Chupp is seeing this case as a POLITICAL issue which he should be CAMPAIGNING around, not a legal issue. And that opens a whole can of beautiful spergery for us. But now that I made this case, let me say, if he's just lazy… it still could go wrong.
So let's actually try to asses how the hearing is going to go:
-IF Chupp is just lazy, then Lemoine is going to be a pain in his ass. Because what a normal yet lazy judge would do is just give the defense their hours, but lemoine Will make trying to asses the real value of said hours something he has to work for, so I see 3 options. Either he says fuck it and gives NOTHING to the defense in hopes that Vic will take the L, he gives everything the defense asks for, including lemoine's bullshit, or he gets the first reasonable estimate he can from a web or prior case and just slams that before letting the defense even make any argument. Option 3 is probably what he SHOULD do, but I'm kinda hoping for 2, not gonna lie.
-IF Chupp is seeing this as a political case, and he really does believe Sharon "Dolores Umbridge" Brigsby has her finger in the pulse of Dallas... He's gonna sped, big time, like "biggest lolcow in this case" level of sped. And he'll probably give Lemwah everything. And honestly, again, I kinda hope he does. Don't get me wrong I am pro-vic, but I enjoy a good lolcow. And more importantly, I know the appelate court would be appaled by this so it wouldn't last anyway, which would lead to even more lolcowing from lawtwitter. Yeah, rainbows I know.
Point is, the argument against Chupp being a sped has so far been that the LAW doesn't let him do so: The law also doesn't let him treat hearings as trials, it doens't let him let lawyers represent a business on a case about wether or not they can do so, it doesn't let him make a decisión with no links to prior laws or cases, reasoning or evidence mentioned, and it sure as shit doesn't let him decide that Ron is a contractor for funimation when that's news to both ron and funimation, and TY. If you think Chupp Will do things just because the law says that's what he should do, you're even more rainbows tan I am!
As an addendrum: I have spellcheck turned down on my computer and all other webs, but it seems to be fucking with me on this web, in my native language, which isn't english… can someone explain to me how to fix this? I can't be the only one that had this issue. (Yes this is my first post, I've been lurking since before weebwars but I dunno why this finnaly made me think it was a good idea to come.)
And for the record: I'm not saying to brace yourselfs, as much as I think Vic doesn't deserve what Chupp and the defense is doing to him, what I'm telling you is to go get the popcorn ready, this trainwreck don't stop for nobody!