Yea, it sucks that cunt can get away with it. Tho I do remember nick stating that her lawyer's appeal response could bring her back but idk.
Honestly, of all the people explicitly in the lawsuit, Marchi is the the most scumfuck unless you count Chris Sabat as part of the wider Funimation group.
But she's also behaved the most intelligently of any of the defendants, which is why she's likely to get off totally scot-free.
Once the appeals process actually is complete and the rumors of the appeal case being strong are actually true, then here's my predictions for now.
Monica and Ron are fucked, end of story. They have the most slam dunk evidence against them and are too much of a liability for Funimation at this point as well.
Funimation is one of those 50/50 cases where it could honestly go either way, but if the appeals do go well for Vic, I could see Funimation attempting to negotiate some sort of settlement with Vic in exchange for dropping the case against them specifically.
Unless the settlement includes a public apology and retraction statement about the allegations, I don't see Vic taking that kind of hypothetical offer.
Marchi's likely going to get away unless we get some shocking swerve that would make Vince Russo do a double-take. But if Funimation goes under because of court costs or because of the COVID-19 pandemic, then her career is even deader than Vic's. Pyrrhic Victory at its finest.
She's got nowhere else to go at this point, and I don't see Viz or Sentai hiring Monica and Jaimie ever again after all this drama, even if the appellate court does hold up Chupp's decision in its entirety. At best, they'll just let them finish their original contracts and just not call back for the next dub contract.
Chris Sabat is probably the "mastermind" in all this, for lack of a better term. But he's only going to get named if the appeals go extremely well for Vic and Funimation is dragged into a second round of discovery. Somehow, I doubt that he'll get named in a second round of discovery at all.
But if he does get dragged into something like that, he's fucked.
If the casting couch rumors are even a tenth as bad as the rumors say, he'll really get hit by the cancel culture crowd. They'll still have cognitive dissonance and double-standards about it, and will openly compare him to Vic in the worst possible ways. Poetic justice if you will.
Vic is still a draw at cons and is getting audiobook gigs at the very least, and I honestly think if he does well enough in court, Viz and Sentai will ease up any unspoken blacklists they have against him since it's obvious that Funimation more or less tried to ruin him because of petty workplace politics at the very least.