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So Terez (member her) 2 months tries to fill in somebody about the situation
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Translation (I hate explaining the joke, but I guess it's for a good cause):
The primary fundraiser for Vic's GoFundMe (Nick Rekieta) is a mostly-non-practicing lawyer from MN who lawsplains on YouTube, and he has been telling Vic fans some really, super-duper wrong stuff about the law because he doesn't actually know what he is doing. He's not licensed in TX, so he got his multimillionaire grandfather's estate lawyer (Percy "Ty" Beard) to take the GFM money even though he has no litigation experience and knows nothing about defamation or tortious interference or anything else they are suing for. Rekieta convinced Vic's fans that Beard was a superlawyer from a high-powered firm and Vic was gonna win this hashtag FearTheBeard.
Vic's lawsuit is what is known as a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). It's a lawsuit that has no legal merit but is only designed to make the defendants suffer financially and emotionally. The Texas anti-SLAPP legal framework is the Texas Citizens' Participation Act (TCPA). They just had their TCPA hearing on September 6, and the judge has until October 7 to rule. He nevertheless dismissed most of the lawsuit's claims from the bench, which is really unusual. He'll take his time on the others to make sure his decision is appeal-proof. Any claim that gets dismissed (which most of them already have been) means Vic has to pay the defendants' legal fees, and perhaps sanctions on top of that.
Anyway, one of the first things Rekieta and Beard told Vic's fans was that the standard of evidence is so low at the TCPA level that all Vic had to do was say under oath that the defendants were lying, and then they would have to prove that Vic really did all the things they said he did. That was always ridiculously wrong, but he got people to believe it, and they gave $250k to the GFM based on lies like that. Rekieta and/or Beard also hinted at one point that they were going to make a constitutional challenge to the TCPA itself at the hearing, but they didn't because there was a Supreme Court decision not long before the hearing that laid down the law (it's only unconstitutional if the case has diversity, meaning any party to the case is not in the TX jurisdiction, which is not the case in Vic's lawsuit; everyone is in TX).
So their Hail Mary in this lawsuit was to have Chuck Huber say a bunch of salacious shit about Chris Sabat in his affidavit which was submitted with their TCPA response brief. Apparently, even though Sabat is not one of the people being sued, he is the mastermind at Funimation who led the conspiracy to oust Vic! Which makes no sense whatsoever as a legal strategy, but they're not even trying to win this lawsuit; they're just taking the opportunity to drag Funimation and Vic's enemies while they have the spotlight. Huber's affidavit actually got tossed because Beard fraudulently notarized it, along with Vic's "sham affidavit" (which contradicts his deposition testimony) where Beard actually copy-pasted Vic's signature from another document and filled in the -tor on "Victor" with BlackJack font, and the affidavit of Chris Slatosch, Kamehacon owner, was also tossed. Slatosch was at SanJapan when Beard claimed he notarized the affidavit in a completely different part of Texas, and that's what clued the defense counsel into the notary fraud, along with a few other details.
Now that it's clear that Vic's case is toast (even though it's not quite over yet—October 7), the people who have been rooting for Vic are looking for someone to blame. Many of them have decided that the judge, a Texas Republican, is an SJW cuck. Others think that someone (probably Chris Sabat!) bribed the judge. Other candidates for bribing are the dozens of lawyers from around the world who have been following the case closely since early June. (Hundreds have followed it, but only dozens closely.) Not a single one of them ever thought Vic was going to win. It was literally Rekieta & Beard + a couple of their friends vs Every Other Lawyer.
We can thank them for the audio leaks, at least. These memes will last forever. Their intent was to make Toei mad at Funimation and get them to pull the DB license from them, but they're fucking delusional if they think that is gonna happen, so yay memes.
The primary fundraiser for Vic's GoFundMe (Nick Rekieta) is a mostly-non-practicing lawyer from MN who lawsplains on YouTube, and he has been telling Vic fans some really, super-duper wrong stuff about the law because he doesn't actually know what he is doing. He's not licensed in TX, so he got his multimillionaire grandfather's estate lawyer (Percy "Ty" Beard) to take the GFM money even though he has no litigation experience and knows nothing about defamation or tortious interference or anything else they are suing for. Rekieta convinced Vic's fans that Beard was a superlawyer from a high-powered firm and Vic was gonna win this hashtag FearTheBeard.
Vic's lawsuit is what is known as a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). It's a lawsuit that has no legal merit but is only designed to make the defendants suffer financially and emotionally. The Texas anti-SLAPP legal framework is the Texas Citizens' Participation Act (TCPA). They just had their TCPA hearing on September 6, and the judge has until October 7 to rule. He nevertheless dismissed most of the lawsuit's claims from the bench, which is really unusual. He'll take his time on the others to make sure his decision is appeal-proof. Any claim that gets dismissed (which most of them already have been) means Vic has to pay the defendants' legal fees, and perhaps sanctions on top of that.
Anyway, one of the first things Rekieta and Beard told Vic's fans was that the standard of evidence is so low at the TCPA level that all Vic had to do was say under oath that the defendants were lying, and then they would have to prove that Vic really did all the things they said he did. That was always ridiculously wrong, but he got people to believe it, and they gave $250k to the GFM based on lies like that. Rekieta and/or Beard also hinted at one point that they were going to make a constitutional challenge to the TCPA itself at the hearing, but they didn't because there was a Supreme Court decision not long before the hearing that laid down the law (it's only unconstitutional if the case has diversity, meaning any party to the case is not in the TX jurisdiction, which is not the case in Vic's lawsuit; everyone is in TX).
So their Hail Mary in this lawsuit was to have Chuck Huber say a bunch of salacious shit about Chris Sabat in his affidavit which was submitted with their TCPA response brief. Apparently, even though Sabat is not one of the people being sued, he is the mastermind at Funimation who led the conspiracy to oust Vic! Which makes no sense whatsoever as a legal strategy, but they're not even trying to win this lawsuit; they're just taking the opportunity to drag Funimation and Vic's enemies while they have the spotlight. Huber's affidavit actually got tossed because Beard fraudulently notarized it, along with Vic's "sham affidavit" (which contradicts his deposition testimony) where Beard actually copy-pasted Vic's signature from another document and filled in the -tor on "Victor" with BlackJack font, and the affidavit of Chris Slatosch, Kamehacon owner, was also tossed. Slatosch was at SanJapan when Beard claimed he notarized the affidavit in a completely different part of Texas, and that's what clued the defense counsel into the notary fraud, along with a few other details.
Now that it's clear that Vic's case is toast (even though it's not quite over yet—October 7), the people who have been rooting for Vic are looking for someone to blame. Many of them have decided that the judge, a Texas Republican, is an SJW cuck. Others think that someone (probably Chris Sabat!) bribed the judge. Other candidates for bribing are the dozens of lawyers from around the world who have been following the case closely since early June. (Hundreds have followed it, but only dozens closely.) Not a single one of them ever thought Vic was going to win. It was literally Rekieta & Beard + a couple of their friends vs Every Other Lawyer.
We can thank them for the audio leaks, at least. These memes will last forever. Their intent was to make Toei mad at Funimation and get them to pull the DB license from them, but they're fucking delusional if they think that is gonna happen, so yay memes.
r/Ningen - Comment by u/TubularCartoon on ”Chris Sabat was the evil mastermind all along”
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