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I think the idiotic plan was to try to get BHBH to waste time and resources fighting the confidentiality order while they should have been getting ready to depose. It may have even been the gameplan from the beginning when initially denying it. Just waste time and money, while really pissing off the judge, when Casey was going to ask for it to begin with and he knew it would be agreed to. If BHBH don't agree to it, then they'll be able to stall the interrogatories beyond the deposition while wasting more time and money on hearings and motions. They seem dead fucking set on making this as long and painful as possible with little chance of winning. The only reasonable outcome I can see for them is losing less, which means Funimation losing more. They don't seem interested in doing that.While I would have loved to see Casey dragged into court and have to explain to a judge why his clients are now asking for the very thing that less than a month ago they vehemently denied wanting to grant the plaintiff, I can see that for BHBH it's just not worth the time and it doesn't cost them anything either. If this is really just bluff and a stall for time, then granting the request things will progress more quickly and it denies the opposition what they really wanted.
MoRonica aren't going to magically have 100 names with this confidentiality order. They've still got absolutely no evidence either with or without a protective order. If they try to sandbag further after this they look even worse going into court after BHBH went out of their way to be nice when they really didn't have to be and BHBH doesn't even look remotely unreasonable to the judge. However, I do suspect that they want all of the information they can get going into the depositions if for no other reason than to press Ron and Monica on it and expose all of it for the flimsy charade it is.
I'm sure that there's some idiotic plan behind all of this in the mind of MoRonica, even if its unfathomable stupid and will work out about as well as all of their other plans. It might not be a bad idea to include some kind of language that would allow BHBH to release information related to the interrogatories should Ron go (or maybe I should say when Ron goes) on Twitter and spouts off lies about what they contain.
I know that generally you can only get deposed once in a case, but that the court can order a second deposition. How common is that? If Casey continues to play chickenshit games and in fact does not provide the interrogatories in a timely fashion before the deposition, how likely would the court rule that MoRonica could be deposed a second time after BHBH have a chance to review them? What would be the minimum time that would be considered in a timely fashion, 24 hours before deposition? We've seen that the Honorable John P. Chupp does not like this shit and he is not impressed. This latest stunt will not improve Casey's position and will only confirm BHBH's stated fears that Casey is going to continue playing games. I want to see if he has the balls to file TCPA after Vic gets deposed after stating in open court that he would not. I think he might.