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

I'm not sure on the specifics, but I believe that's passive advertising. "If you decide to break your contract, we'll pay it off." Vs what Ron did, which was "If you want this financial reward, you will need to break that contract you are in." Passive vs Active.

But I'm not sure.
Can't forget that phone company's generally have a clause in that allows you to terminate the contract early either by paying a lump sum or by monthly. The new phone company just informs them you are canceling said contract for theirs so you don't have to do it thus saving you time running around.
 
I'm not sure on the specifics, but I believe that's passive advertising. "If you decide to break your contract, we'll pay it off." Vs what Ron did, which was "If you want this financial reward, you will need to break that contract you are in." Passive vs Active.
Please do not mistake my posts for any sort of defense of what Ron did. That's TI as far as I'm concerned. I am stating that 10SorrowFullObject's comparison of Ron interfering with Vic to Coke interfering with Pepsi fails because Coke is a competitor to Pepsi and so has privilege, while Ron is not a competitor to Vic and so does not (unless we're talking who gets to hook the heifer up to the plow).
Can't forget that phone company's generally have a clause in that allows you to terminate the contract early either by paying a lump sum or by monthly. The new phone company just informs them you are canceling said contract for theirs so you don't have to do it thus saving you time running around.
But again, for the purpose of TI, the fact the the party who terminated the contract had the right to is not a defense against TI. That is totally irrelevant to T-Mobile's actions.
 
But again, for the purpose of TI, the fact the the party who terminated the contract had the right to is not a defense against TI. That is totally irrelevant to T-Mobile's actions.
Exactly. There is an exit clause in the phone contracts that require you to pay an amount to break it. So it's not breaching the contract, just exercising an exit clause.
 
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All that is required in Texas is that a contract existed and that due to the actions of a third party it no longer does. It doesn't even matter if Kamehacon was already planning to break the contract when Ron interfered (this same issue came up in Meyer v Waid).

No-one is denying that this shit happens all the time in business. That doesn't mean it's lawful. In one of the streams with Ty he says that this kind of stuff used to happen on the golf course with no witnesses. In this particular case, though, there is a written record.
And right after vic was dropped from kc, they went to Ron and said "we based our decision on the possibility of his victims being voice actors" , which is a specific piece of information Ron gave them.

Exactly. There is an exit clause in the phone contracts that require you to pay an amount to break it. So it's not breaching the contract, just exercising an exit clause.

Termination is also different from breach. TI requires breach. For example, Maddox couldn't argue TI in regards to losing Harry's because there was no breach of contract.
 
Update: I checked again and Scott has unfollowed the gay porn twitter account I mentioned earlier. So if you all ever wonder if this thread is getting monitored by interested parties, that's probably a yes. Or someone just went and DM'd Scott about it for some reason.

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Bear with me for some autism for a bit:

so Funimation's TCPA motion to dismiss includes as exhibit C an affidavit from Scott Barretto, the Senior Director of Public Relations at Funimation. And because of course he does, he has a twitter account. And because of course he would, he retweets shit that Monica Rial vomits out onto twitter.

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It's relevant IMO because in another affidavit, they're claiming that they don't have "any control" over Monica's tweets. But they do have a senior director who monitors social media and selectively retweets Monica's twitter activity, and since I know how marketers work I pretty much guarantee you there's documented internal communication asking people to post and share tweets to promote their movie.

Oh and bonus points for motive: while I was scrolling through Scott Barretto's follow list, I noticed something that stuck out visually:

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That's the self-described "New York Times of gay porn" over at https://twitter.com/justusboys

So that's not only hilarious (who follows a gay porn twitter account while mentioning your employer in your bio?) but also plausible motive for behind-the-scenes internal shenanigans against Vic.
 
Update: I checked again and Scott has unfollowed the gay porn twitter account I mentioned earlier. So if you all ever wonder if this thread is getting monitored by interested parties, that's probably a yes. Or someone just went and DM'd Scott about it for some reason.

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"McGill and his business partner Scott Barretto, who co-founded StraightOut Media & Marketing, said Telluride’s Gay Ski Week strives to boost the local economy while giving their guests a great experience"

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The man's as gay as a picnic basket
 
Also I'm not quite sure that it was Funimation that cut the investigation short, as they shouldn't have been able to. She's a Sony exec, not a Funimation employee.

She's basically a troubleshooter and seems to have been brought in in that capacity. Honestly, I think she could be very useful if somehow you could depose her and if also, somehow, you could expect candor out of her.

IMO if Sony/Funi actually settle out and agree to candid discovery, she's the one who knows where the bodies are buried in this case.

No-one is denying that this shit happens all the time in business. That doesn't mean it's lawful.

It usually is, though. Even in Texas, which is inordinately fond of the tortoise interference cause of action, only some ways and some motives for interfering with a contract are actually unlawful. For some bizarre reason, SJWs seem to be really intent on coming to Texas to specifically violate Texas TI.
 
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"McGill and his business partner Scott Barretto, who co-founded StraightOut Media & Marketing, said Telluride’s Gay Ski Week strives to boost the local economy while giving their guests a great experience"

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The man's as gay as a picnic basket

Yuuuuup. By the way, do we know who at Funimation wrote and/or approved the Feb 11 twitter announcement at issue in the lawsuit? I'd be very surprised if the "Senior Director / Head of Public Relations" at Funimation wasn't involved. If he didn't write it, he probably had editorial control. It'd be very interesting to dig into his involvement in this affair and his relationship with the already-alleged conspirators via discovery and deposition.
 

Oh look Akiva has cases listed in Westlaw! Pay no mind that they are all Corporate IP law, which is what he has done exclusively since graduating law school. Pay no mind that he has no retail consumer law experience whatsoever and has likely never even met the people paying his bills. he is clearly the better lawyer in every situation! (assuming of course you have a corporate IP question, otherwise, yeah he may as well be a layman.)
 
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I dropped this screencap in Nicks thread, but thought it might also be useful to have it here for discussion, it's a small snippet of a contract between Funimation Productions LLP (FPL) and VA talent. Nick also implied that Vic may have never gotten the required termination letter and so there could be an argument that Vic is still employed by Funi.
 
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I dropped this screencap in Nicks thread, but thought it might also be useful to have it here for discussion, it's a small snippet of a contract between Funimation Productions LLP (FPL) and VA talent. Nick also implied that Vic may have never gotten the required termination letter and so there could be an argument that Vic is still employed by Funi.

I like the idea of Vic just barging into every Funimation recording and voicing Broly and flipping shit over and attacking people.

Seriously, that would be awesome.
 
She's basically a troubleshooter and seems to have been brought in in that capacity. Honestly, I think she could be very useful if somehow you could depose her and if also, somehow, you could expect candor out of her.

Surely she can be deposed given that she conducted the investigation and was the one who recommended firing Vic. Obviously she might be less than candid, but that's not without risk.
 
'The agreement may be terminated by FUNi, if agent/contrator is acting in a manner which is detrimental to FUNi reputation in the community"

The public actions of Rial, Marchi, Inoue-Hart have been HIGHLY detrimental to FUNi reputation in the community. As anyone could see on Twitter, Youtube, Reddit, etc..

Even worse. These people did it on behalf of FUNI (or with the appearance of FUNI support).
 
So Nick brought up an interesting thing.

According to Vic's contract a Funimation contract that he was given by someone not Ty / BHBH / Vic (i.e., Funimation has even more people who want them dead than they thought), he has to be informed in writing of what he did.

... Where's that written statement? Why hasn't Funi produced it?

Is it possible they didn't bother to do so?

Is it possible they technically never actually fired Vic?
 
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I dropped this screencap in Nicks thread, but thought it might also be useful to have it here for discussion, it's a small snippet of a contract between Funimation Productions LLP (FPL) and VA talent. Nick also implied that Vic may have never gotten the required termination letter and so there could be an argument that Vic is still employed by Funi.
Well it either means he was terminated as the contract specified or he wasnt. If he wasnt then they violated the contract by terminating them the way they did. Thats what Im getting out of this.
 
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