It's amazing how differently things can work when both sides of a legal conflict are represented by at least minimally capable counsel.
This law firm is the brain trust behind the Threadnaught back during Weeb Wars, famous for predicting every downfall for the Vic lawsuit except the one that actually happened. One of them copyrighted pictures of his kids and tried to threaten Null to take them down. Lane Haygood, the lawyer in all the emails representing LFJ, was a Threadnaughter who couldn't keep things straight during the lawsuit.
Or plaintiff had a "seizure", or is having "technical problems", or "doesn't know how to turn on the camera", etc.
Narcissism
Promised and delivered.
It's a basic rule. It's meant to encourage people not to jack around arguing about service of process.
First impressions are a big thing. If you're obviously the party coming right out of the gate being a complete jerk, this is a bad first impression. So by waiving service, you not only get a good first impression, you also get more time to respond. That's why it's written into the rule.
It's also possible they might be going for a "the process is the punishment" thing. I.e., waste as much of Null's time and resources before trying to go "oh no guess we were wrong in good faith darn sucks to be you chud." This is what the left has been doing for the past year against the Trump admin -- every single thing he tries to do, no matter what, they run to a lefty judge who makes up some batshit insane moon logic as to why he can't do it. It's slapped down every single time but it wastes time, resources, and clouds the waters so they can try and recover from the assfucking they got in November 2024.
It would make me no end of amused if the Threadnaught retards had got this totally cool idea of abusing the DMCA by claiming copyright of their tweets (can't, they're licensed to X) or pictures of Slabface Elliot (can't, fair use to mock a confessed sexual deviant) and oh darn, turns out when you're practicing law somewhere not in a hugbox on X or bluesky the rules actually matter.
This is really overanalyzing it. This is an entirely normal and routine thing to do, and the only reason we haven't seen it is the people we either litigate with or observe are lolcows who always do the wrong thing.
TOTAL RETARD WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED!
Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allows for 90 days to respond to a lawsuit if the defendant waived serviced and is not within USA. That part is normal. Additionally the defense asked for 12 more days due to "scheduling conflicts". If all parties agree to it (as here), such extensions are common place.
That kind of worries me actually. I prefer more clownshoes.
Not yet but we appreciate you anyway imageman.
Null and his lawyers should have put up more of a stink about the extra 12 days. We all know dong gone Fong wouldn't extend the same courtesy to Null.
His lawyers probably would actually accede to customary stuff like this. There's no reason to shit up the docket over stuff that won't matter. Not only does it cost billable hours (which the client might rightfully call out) but it risks pissing off the judge in the process.
