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

[Urbanmech]

It’s good he did it. Ty was way too nice, and it’s clear hes in a field where people avoid issues by doing more business. It doesnt work with these mentally challenged “feminists“, and their brain aids council.

Lemontwink wants to fling shit everywhere? Then shove his nose in it, and point it out to the judge.

Martines Hsu, wouldn’t have ignored a motion to compel discovery like Ty did. He was giving them too many chances, not realising how fucked in the head the clients, and council were.

Well Lemonaids has shoved his own nose in the shit too. I mean how stupid do you have to be to literally put in a filing "I should get paid more due to having to do all these affidavits, especially these ones where the Plaintiff had ZERO EVIDENCE!" I mean idk an ethical lawyer would just say they have no evidence and go from there instead of running up the bill for his clients.

 

[AnOminous]

He’ll likely take another 100 hours just researching, and drafting the appeals motion.
Remember this self proclaimed expert, that references his own blog spent 260 hours researching and drafting just the TCPA motion to dismiss.

He would have to be a staggeringly incompetent "expert" to need to research for 260 hours for a pedestrian motion to dismiss that a generalist like Sam Johnson, who presumably actually did need to do research, required a fraction of the time to handle.

Well Lemonaids has shoved his own nose in the shit too. I mean how stupid do you have to be to literally put in a filing "I should get paid more due to having to do all these affidavits, especially these ones where the Plaintiff had ZERO EVIDENCE!" I mean idk an ethical lawyer would just say they have no evidence and go from there instead of running up the bill for his clients.

In both cases the affidavits were completely unnecessary and irrelevant. Either the plaintiff had no evidence, in which case there was no need to counter any evidence, or the plaintiff did have evidence, in which case the defendant was not permitted to rebut it on some kind of preponderance of the evidence standard. In neither event was any of this perjury necessary or relevant.

 

[diskboomer]

He would have to be a staggeringly incompetent "expert" to need to research for 260 hours for a pedestrian motion to dismiss that a generalist like Sam Johnson, who presumably actually did need to do research, required a fraction of the time to handle.

Im hoping Chupp is annoyed enough to write something to that effect, in his fact filing. It’s clear from what we heard about the hearing, even from the spednaught, Chupp kept going at that angle.

 

[Lord Xenu]

Someone from KV or Lawtwitter is gonna be a murderer. Or multiple someones [...]

Shane? Manjaw? Lemoine?

I am willing to bet good money that Shane catches a Domestic Violence case within a few years tops.

 

[Imago]

Ron thinks he's a legal strategist. I'm wondering how many of Lemon's extra curriculars started as a mandate from him. I could see him raging about Nick Rackets for hours while the meter was running, demanding that they run a background check etc. I don't think the COA is going to award him anything for the work outside of the TCPA, but if Lemon was just doing what the client wanted he has a right to bill for his time, and from what I've seen of Ron he earned it.

 

[AnOminous]

Ron thinks he's a legal strategist. I'm wondering how many of Lemon's extra curriculars started as a mandate from him. I could see him raging about Nick Rackets for hours while the meter was running, demanding that they run a background check etc. I don't think the COA is going to award him anything for the work outside of the TCPA, but if Lemon was just doing what the client wanted he has a right to bill for his time, and from what I've seen of Ron he earned it.

If the Soye Boye did this and Lemon is actually competent, he incorporated into his fee agreement that anything he didn't think he could collect as part of the TCPA fees, but Soye insisted on him doing anyway, Soye was on the hook for personally. I'd be surprised if this is the case, though.

It should have been clear enough to a competent lawyer that he wouldn't get a quarter million for basically filing a motion to dismiss that the clients should have been informed.

 

[Terrorist]

Maybe Beard should've focused less on doing epic joss whedon reddit owns and more on studying precedent and stuff. oh yeah you proved vic isn't a literal piece of fecal matter and jesus didn't burn people, so freaking epic my dude, I'm sure vic really appreciates that now that he has to pay a quarter mil.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Maybe Beard should've focused less on doing epic joss whedon reddit owns and more on studying precedent and stuff. oh yeah you proved vic isn't a literal piece of fecal matter and jesus didn't burn people, so freaking epic my dude, I'm sure vic really appreciates that now that he has to pay a quarter mil.

I thought Obama got you. Was that another lie?

 

[Urbanmech]

If the Soye Boye did this and Lemon is actually competent, he incorporated into his fee agreement that anything he didn't think he could collect as part of the TCPA fees, but Soye insisted on him doing anyway, Soye was on the hook for personally. I'd be surprised if this is the case, though.

It should have been clear enough to a competent lawyer that he wouldn't get a quarter million for basically filing a motion to dismiss that the clients should have been informed.

So they keep bringing up how Ron's insurance will cover the fees but I am wondering will they? I mean the TCPA is supposed to cover reasonable fees and could the insurance company fight the fact they were compensated for reasonable fee absolve them from paying anymore? Just thinkin how weaselly insurance companies can be wouldn't really rely on them.

I thought Obama got you. Was that another lie?

Who do you think was flying those drones killing US citizens was?

 

[AnOminous]

So they keep bringing up how Ron's insurance will cover the fees but I am wondering will they? I mean the TCPA is supposed to cover reasonable fees and could the insurance company fight the fact they were compensated for reasonable fee absolve them from paying anymore? Just thinkin how weaselly insurance companies can be wouldn't really rely on them.

I'd be amazed if they'd cover much if anything of completely unnecessary expenses for a willful tort, especially if it's overturned on appeal. It's sort of like you got your dental insurance to pay for a necessary wisdom tooth extraction but then also got a bunch of purely cosmetic dentistry done and expected them to pay for that, too.

This is even more the case if Judge Chupp issues a findings of fact and conclusions of law, as requested by Lemonparty, that makes this explicit instead of just implied, as it is now. I honestly don't think it was a very good idea of him to demand that of an already pissed off judge who just shafted him. He's asking for an even deeper dicking. "Thank you sir may I have another!"

 

[Foolish Samurai Warrior]

Who do you think was flying those drones killing US citizens was?

Obama?

 

[Urbanmech]

I'd be amazed if they'd cover much if anything of completely unnecessary expenses for a willful tort, especially if it's overturned on appeal. It's sort of like you got your dental insurance to pay for a necessary wisdom tooth extraction but then also got a bunch of purely cosmetic dentistry done and expected them to pay for that, too.

This is even more the case if Judge Chupp issues a findings of fact and conclusions of law, as requested by Lemonparty, that makes this explicit instead of just implied, as it is now. I honestly don't think it was a very good idea of him to demand that of an already pissed off judge who just shafted him. He's asking for an even deeper dicking. "Thank you sir may I have another!"

Yea I mean if the policy states "Will cover reasonable fees up to $100k" it would seem the insurance company would be off the hook since the reasonable fees are already being paid by the plaintiff, anything excess would not be reasonable fees. Granted we are just speculating here since don't have any of the policy wording .

 

[AnOminous]

Yea I mean if the policy states "Will cover reasonable fees up to $100k" it would seem the insurance company would be off the hook since the reasonable fees are already being paid by the plaintiff, anything excess would not be reasonable fees. Granted we are just speculating here since don't have any of the policy wording .

If Soye hasn't already sorted this out with his insurance, if they have anything to do with this at all, he may have a nasty surprise in his future. One possibility, though, is that J. Sean Lemoine was actually brought on board by the insurance company itself. If so, they'd have a harder time saying their own hand-picked lawyer screwed up. There are connections between Casey/Perez and Lemoine's firm, though, so those might explain retaining him.

 

[Urbanmech]

If Soye hasn't already sorted this out with his insurance, if they have anything to do with this at all, he may have a nasty surprise in his future. One possibility, though, is that J. Sean Lemoine was actually brought on board by the insurance company itself. If so, they'd have a harder time saying their own hand-picked lawyer screwed up. There are connections between Casey/Perez and Lemoine's firm, though, so those might explain retaining him.

Yea thinking more about it, there is definitely probably something/wording in the policy for the insurance company to fight for reasonable fees. To avoid the whole "Oh your insurance can pay up to how much?" scenarios. IDK thinking about the insurance company recommending Lemonaids firm to have them hire another firm as a front and to drive up the costs would be hilarious also.

 

[Girlboy69]

So the past few days I've doing non-weeb shit and I pull out my phone and see some bullshit site on Google telling me Chupp ruled against Vic and he now owes MoRons a quarter of a mil. Is this bullshit or nah? The article was short as shit and kinda vague.

 

[Garm]

So the past few days I've doing non-weeb shit and I pull out my phone and see some bullshit site on Google telling me Chupp ruled against Vic and he now owes MoRons a quarter of a mil. Is this bullshit or nah? The article was short as shit and kinda vague.

The quarter of a mil is the total.

100k to Ron and Monica
50k to Funimation
50k to Marchi.

5,000 in sanctions to each.

Ron and Monica owe 160k to their lawyers. So... Pyhrric victory at best for them.

 

[Girlboy69]

The quarter of a mil is the total.

100k to Ron and Monica
50k to Funimation
50k to Marchi.

5,000 in sanctions to each.

Ron and Monica owe 160k to their lawyers. So... Pyhrric victory at best for them.

But if it goes to appeals, it could go up to half a mil, no? I wonder if he'll do it.

 

[diskboomer]

But if it goes to appeals, it could go up to half a mil, no? I wonder if he'll do it.

He filed for appeal weeks ago, before Chupps ruling.

 

[Urbanmech]

But if it goes to appeals, it could go up to half a mil, no? I wonder if he'll do it.

There is really no guarantee how much he will have to pay due to appeals. Chupp knew Vic was appealing before he gave judgement on the fee's so there may be an argument that invalidates the additional fees associated with the appeal. BUT, and big but here, there is also the fact that a lower court is telling a higher court what to do. The Court of Appeals may just ignore everything Chupp ordered for appeal fees and add their own versions which could be worse.same/better for vic or the defendants.

 

[Garm]

But if it goes to appeals, it could go up to half a mil, no? I wonder if he'll do it.

True. But if the appeals court overturns some of the rulings that would be less he would have to pay.

Seems like there are a lot of variables to try and guess what is going to happen. Probably better just to roll the dice and see what happens.