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

[blackduck]

Theres more and this is just the 1st round of lawsuits. Highly recondmend you go over to the weeb wars forum everyone there did a spectacular job cataloging the spergery.

Thanks. I have been keeping up with it. The actual filing was the straw that broke the camels back and made me want to register.

 

[spam.mask]

So question, is it more expensive to sue someone or to get sued in terms of legal fees? Cause I'm constantly baffled that these people want to get sued to "prove they are right". Fuck that, I got bills to pay

Long story short, there is no answer. It depends entirely on legal strategy and desired outcome. There are limits to Level 2 discovery, which is the default category, so that portion is unlikely to be a source of abuse.

Spoiler: Discovery Control Plan

Rule 190.3. Discovery Control Plan - By Rule (Level 2) (1999)

(a) Application. Unless a suit is governed by a discovery control plan under Rules 190.2 or 190.4, discovery must be conducted in accordance with this subdivision.

(b) Limitations. Discovery is subject to the limitations provided elsewhere in these rules and to the following additional limitations:

(1) Discovery period. All discovery must be conducted during the discovery period, which begins when suit is filed and continues until:

(A) 30 days before the date set for trial, in cases under the Family Code; or
(B) in other cases, the earlier of

(i) 30 days before the date set for trial.
(ii) nine months after the earlier of the date of the first oral deposition or the due date of the first response to written discovery.

(2) Total time for oral depositions. Each side may have no more than 50 hours in oral depositions to examine and cross-examine parties on the opposing side, experts designated by those parties, and persons who are subject to those parties' control. "Side" refers to all the litigants with generally common interests in the litigation. If one side designates more than two experts, the opposing side may have an additional six hours of total deposition time for each additional expert designated. The court may modify the deposition hours and must do so when a side or party would be given unfair advantage.
(3) Interrogatories. Any party may serve on any other party no more than 25 written interrogatories, excluding interrogatories asking a party only to identify or authenticate specific documents. Each discrete subpart of an interrogatory is considered a separate interrogatory.

 

[Captain Manning]

Theres more and this is just the 1st round of lawsuits. Highly recondmend you go over to the weeb wars forum everyone there did a spectacular job cataloging the spergery.

Yeah, I specifically gave shout outs to @mindlessobserver.

Em basically said I don't need to reinvent the wheel here with this thread. I made sure to link to the OP he did. This is mainly just gonna be about the dry legal stuff. As more shit gets filed, I'll be organizing things better. Right now, we're in the nascent stages of all this.

 

[BoxofMonkeys]

Not necessarily. From the fact they aren't instantly going for a TRO, there may be just this. Along with anything else formally required.

I guess Ty went with the strategy of "let the imbeciles down themselves in their own words".

 

[HTTP Error 404]

At least 1 million dollars. Probably several million.

Funimation is dead.

 

[Tard]

At least 1 million dollars. Probably several million.

Funimation is dead.

I'm also sure Toei is happy to see this PR nightmare unfolding of a gigantic lawsuit that will smear FUNis reputation when all their private information gets leaked

 

[Jub-Jub]

What a wild ride, we had countdown to end of day filings disappointment -> 'we have been in touch' Ty tweet -> @emspex posting the no court on good Friday info -> document drop.

Don't forget to tune into Nick's show tonight as it's going to be huge. I can't wait till he gets to La Choy's questions that guy is so fucked.

 

[repentance]

At least 1 million dollars. Probably several million.

Funimation is dead.

It's even better than that. Funi's only hope of minimising the damage to itself is to throw the others under a bus.

Funi is absolutely going to refute any assertion that the unholy trinity are its agents, and in doing so it will be hanging them out to dry.

 

[Captain Manning]

Let me know if anybody doesn't like the subtitle.

 

[Rykel22]

So now it's time to ask, on this Holy Thursday, who's going to be our Judas?

 

[repentance]

So now it's time to ask, on this Holy Thursday, who's going to be our Judas?

Marchi probably needs 30 pieces of silver more than the others.

 

[Wake me up]

@AnOminous is there any chance of a counterclaim here? What would it possibly be?

Sorry if a counterclaim doesn't even make sense in this context, I'm not a legal expert, much less on Texas law (which is why I'm asking you).

 

[BoxofMonkeys]

Marchi probably needs 30 pieces of silver more than the others.

She also seems to have shut up and might be listening to competent counsel rather than relying on twitter smileys for protection.

 

[TheClappening]

Marchi probably needs 30 pieces of silver more than the others.

Judas betrayed with a kiss, though, so that seems more up Monica's alley.

 

[Syaoran Li]

And so it begins....

I'm wondering what all the smug KickVic losers on Twitter and PULL are thinking now.

 

[Vampy]

And so it begins....

I'm wondering what all the smug KickVic losers on Twitter and PULL are thinking now.

Denying reality and pretending Vic has no case, mostly.

 

[AZ 594]

And so it begins....

I'm wondering what all the smug KickVic losers on Twitter and PULL are thinking now.

Probably trying to think of some hairbrained attempt to countersue Vic, considering they are floating that possibility around.

 

[BoxofMonkeys]

And so it begins....

I'm wondering what all the smug KickVic losers on Twitter and PULL are thinking now.

Sadly Pull hasn't added much. They are amusing in their own pants on head exceptional sort of way.

Re: the $1,000,000+ ask, remember that's exclusive of attorneys fees.

 

[AnOminous]

Funi is absolutely going to refute any assertion that the unholy trinity are its agents, and in doing so it will be hanging them out to dry.

Well, they're going to try to do that. Good luck.

They're the fattest hen in the henhouse and the fox just got in.

@AnOminous is there any chance of a counterclaim here? What would it possibly be?

Sorry if a counterclaim doesn't even make sense in this context, I'm not a legal expert, much less on Texas law (which is why I'm asking you).

It's pretty generic to file a bullshit counterclaim against nearly anything. We'll see what we'll see.

 

[DirtyOldish_pol_tard]

From Exhibit D. Interrogatories and requests for production to Ronald Toye (pp 25-27)

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The significance of them wanting domains, social media, email accounts etc is so that they can subpoena records for them.

Toye and Rial still act like this is no big deal, totally lackadaisical "heh, look at that, we got sued " Totally out of their depth, which is proven by their inept ethics complaints. What are the chances they have or will try to destroy or cover up correspondence between the two of them about all this? This is a couple I could see instant messaging one another as they sit next to each other on the couch.