Steve Quest (p/k/a Montagraph) vs. Nicholas Robert Rekieta & Rekieta Law, LLC (2023)

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He still lists his location as CO state on the GFM:

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Probably means nothing, but I find it interesting that there was much ado about him NOT being a resident in CO.
 
Schneider told Monte to pony up.

Sounds more like Schneider said 'this is out of my league'. I'm just a small town lawyer and I don't do appeals. You're gonna need some one else to handle that, and it's gonna cost about $50k.

On the upside, if Rekieta had spunked $100k to date, and it costs $50k to file an appeal on a single small issue, he's could be $150,000 in the hole so far.

Randazza doesn't strike me as being the kind of guy who does his customers any favours when it comes to cutting them a break on their bills.
Looks like alogs in Sean's DISCORD might fuck with Monty:

These morons surely realize that it was actually Nick who started the ebegging? Man, even if Rekeita wasn't a lolcow, you'd be embarrassed to say that you watched him. His fan base is wall to wall retards.
 
Sounds more like Schneider said 'this is out of my league'. I'm just a small town lawyer and I don't do appeals. You're gonna need some one else to handle that, and it's gonna cost about $50k.
Seems pretty premature to retain counsel for it. He should at least talk to someone but actually retaining them when the appeals court could just swat it down without comment? Most interlocutory appeals just get denied right out of the gate.
 
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Seems pretty premature to retain counsel for it. He should at least talk to someone but actually retaining them when the appeals court could just swat it down without comment? Most interlocutory appeals just get denied right out of the gate.
It looks like Nicky is going to play Ron Toye style fuck, fuck games running up the costs so Monte best have a war chest ready to go. Plus it will be humiliating if he raises more than rackets.
 
I wonder if anyone who Rackets turned his internet hate machine on will donate.
Depends on if they're even aware of this lawsuit. For instance, do the Weeb Wars people even keep up with Nick anymore?

I imagine it's a lot of disgruntled former fans who feel mislead by a grifter who would admit to being a grifter right to their faces as a "joke".
 
Sounds more like Schneider said 'this is out of my league'. I'm just a small town lawyer and I don't do appeals. You're gonna need some one else to handle that, and it's gonna cost about $50k.

I don't doubt Schneider noped out, but you'd assume Monty would've set his target higher than the 15k he mentioned in the GFM announcement video if he was informed by counsel that his costs were going to be running similar to Nick's.
 
Depends on if they're even aware of this lawsuit. For instance, do the Weeb Wars people even keep up with Nick anymore?
Out of the LawTwitter crowd, only Mike Dunford (fat tuba guy) seems to care about this latest Nick lawsuit. Douchette, Cohen, Two-Ton, and the rest of them still occasionally sperg over Nick and the GFM but don't seem to notice that Nick has absolutely imploded since 2022. And since LawTwitter loves claiming defamation is free speech, Dunford actually supports Nick here.
 
Seems pretty premature to retain counsel for it. He should at least talk to someone but actually retaining them when the appeals court could just swat it down without comment? Most interlocutory appeals just get denied right out of the gate.
Do Schneider (and Monty) know that as well though? Schneider seems like not a great lawyer, just one that has all the facts on his side. I could see him saying to Monty that you need a different lawyer (maybe including a soft "if you want to"), and Monty thinking it's absolutely required. Monty probably only talked to Schneider is what I'm guessing, and is probably misinformed.
 
I don't doubt Schneider noped out, but you'd assume Monty would've set his target higher than the 15k he mentioned in the GFM announcement video if he was informed by counsel that his costs were going to be running similar to Nick's.

I didn't realize he was asking fof $15k. I thought he was chasing $50k. That's a much more modest request. You can't accuse him of grifting.
 
I don't see how you thread the needle between the anti-SLAPP not being unconstitutional in Minnesota while also providing some sort of immunity from suit such that they can reach for the interlocutory appeal option. If the anti-SLAPP is providing any immunity, it's a very limited immunity of not having to endure the cost of trial, but violating the plaintiff's right to a jury trial is why MN's anti-SLAPP was ruled unconstitutional.

This all seems like a gargantuan waste of time and money to me.
The MN case that resulted in their anti-SLAPP statue being voided was the picture of lousy jurisprudence. What should have happened was that the case in question [which had nothing to do with “public participation” as such] should not have been allowed to proceed as a SLAPP case simply because the defendant was an NGO looking to influence public policy matters.

Say an adventurous brotherman decided to challenge one of the many bogus DMCA complaints filed by Pig Sloblinson or creepy “Uncle” Paul, and the court found all of Section 230 unconstitutional because in that specific case it was used to invalidate your 1A right to free speech and trounced on fair use, criticism and parody.

That’s what, essentially, happened to MN’s anti-SLAPP provision.
 
violating the plaintiff's right to a jury trial is why MN's anti-SLAPP was ruled unconstitutional
That's not the full reason that it was ruled unconstitutional. A motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim similarly cuts off a plaintiff's trial prior to it going to a jury. There's no constitutional right to have a lolsuit go before a jury.

To get your trial in front of a jury, you need a prima facie case, but the anti-SLAPP law imposed a higher burden of evidence on the plaintiff. Thus, it was unconstitutional.
Normally, I'd think this would make absolute sense. But it doesn't seem to make any sense at all in this case. It wasn't Nick's corporation that defamed Monty. It wasn't one of his employees, so someone's suing the company. It was Nick that did it.
The statements at question were made by the Rekieta Media corporation's employee, on YouTube, which is the normal course of doing the company's business. That's a pretty solid reason to sue the corporation, as well as the individual.
 
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