At the risk of making light of the situation, seeing Casey so completely undisturbed by Beard's threats had me feeling inspired.
If you're asking about some new details I don't know, if you were asking about my post, I was thinking of these exchanges from the evidence in Beard's motion to compel:
Ty Beard said:The motion will likely be filed tonight. And we will ask for sanctions against you of course, for flagrant discovery abuse.
Your sudden concern for "safety" is transparently self‐serving and ridiculous. It's now very clear that your clients can't
back up their public claims.
If you were actually concerned about the identity of these purported witnesses, you would have accepted our offer to
redact their names. Obviously, your real concern is that your clients are about to be publicly exposed as liars.
Maybe these discovery games will work out for you, but I doubt it. You really should just comply with the rules. The
purpose of discovery is to allow the parties to investigate claims being made. Your attempt at prior restraint won't work.
‐‐Ty
Casey Erick said:Ty, we are opposed.
Be advised we will seek sanctions against you, your client, or both, for having to respond.
Ty Beard said:Dear Casey –
Since January, your clients have defamed Mr. Mignogna mercilessly and constantly. A key point of the public allegations
(and private statements made to businesses) is that there are "hundreds" of women who will purportedly accuse Mr.
Mignogna of sexual assault.
I see no value proposition in your proposal as it allows your clients' public defamation of Mr. Mignogna to stand
unanswered.
I will, however, agree to redact the identity of each witness in any public statements for 30 days. That will give us time to
work this out and see if there is any common ground.
I reserve the right to publicly release information about their specific allegations, the number of such accusers, whether
they are identified with sufficient detail, etc.
Please advise ASAP if this is acceptable as we otherwise intend to file this evening.
Casey Erick said:Thanks for the information.
We have valid safety concerns about disclosing the names and contact information of the other victims given the
comments made online. And, taking that position is not inconsistent with our objection to Plaintiff's motion for a
confidentiality order.
Since the hearing on that confidentiality order, we have seen numerous comments online that are disturbing, prejudicial
to my clients, and intended to frighten witnesses. You have publicly encouraged your client's supporters to find
personal and private information about witnesses and even other third party attorneys. Given this climate, we think it is
our ethical obligation to protect these women, who want only to speak about their experiences. They should not be
subjected to online abuse, doxing, harassment, and death threats for speaking out.
So, you can see why we are taking measures to protect these witnesses and which is why we now request an agreement
limited to the purpose of protecting these women from online harassment. I will remind you that during the hearing, Jim
admitted that Plaintiff would protect the identities of people who come forward because they have not put themselves
into this case. I suggested that we handle such situations on a case‐by‐case basis, and the judge agreed. So not only is
our proposal consistent with the discussion during the hearing, the change in circumstances I refer to above makes this
matter even more important.
All that said, we will provide the witness information you asked for pursuant to a rule 11 agreement by Friday. All we're
asking for here is the professional courtesy of an agreement that no one will expose these witness's identities and
personal information online. What is your position?
Ty Beard said:Casey, I assume that you saw my response below and have rejected my request for confirmation. However, I'd like to
call your attention to Local Rule 3.12: "Frivolous objections to discovery requests are subject to sanctions by the trial
court, including, e.g., objections to identification of persons having knowledge of relevant facts and identification of
testifying expert witnesses." It seems to me that your responses will be sanctionable per this rule. I would like to avoid
that, but I am not willing to let you withhold the information that we're entitled to.
Please confirm whether you will provide the information requested in my 3:29 PM email by Friday at 3 pm.
‐‐Ty
As a last effort to resolve this without court involvement, and on the off chance that this is a simple misunderstanding, I
am asking you one more time to confirm that you will provide the information requested in my 3:29 PM email by Friday
at 3 pm.
If you will confirm that, I will not file the motion. The remaining items we can discuss later. If you won't confirm that
you'll provide the information, then you leave me no choice but to file the motion to compel and schedule a hearing.
—Ty
Casey Erick said:Okay.
At this point, we won't waste anymore time reviewing our answers by Friday and will deal with them via
your motion. Although, I'm guessing the court won't view it as a good faith effort to confer.
In any event, I do not agree to setting a hearing during your client's deposition or my clients'
depositions.
Let me know what dates the court offers so I may see if I'm available.
Thanks.
Ty Beard said:I intend to file my motion to compel first thing in the morning and I plan to call to set
the hearing right after I file.
Casey Erick said:
Ty Beard said:If the court can accommodate us, I'll set the hearing
while we're up there for depositions. Is that OK with
you?
Casey Erick said:Ty, then file your motion to compel
with us opposed. I will respond to your
motion accordingly.
Otherwise, see my prior email about
any supplemental answers. Thanks.
He is more of Cui, an ashole that as soon as he starts loosing his adventage becomes a coward.Eh. Making Beard Freeza is too nice. He's more of a Recoome at best.
Even then only if you pretend the Vegeta, Krillian l, Gohan fight doesn't exist.
He's more like a Saibamen, blowing himself upHe is more of Cui, an ashole that as soon as he starts loosing his adventage becomes a coward.
Has anyone seen Vic's Broly headshot from his latest tweet? It's pretty cringy...
Kinda funny considering he hates this role.
He's more like Cui as in being a nobody who thinks he's a main rival when no one knows he exists and when he finally steps up to fight he is immediately killed.He is more of Cui, an ashole that as soon as he starts loosing his adventage becomes a coward.
More like 1/4 Raditz
So Vic or an admin hit the master reset button on his fanbase discord server? Emails to Beard say that they haven't submitted their discovery documents and the server has been nuked
Oh my fucking god, this is hilarious.Some absolute fucking GEMS
Judge didn't know Beard was a lawyer
He doesn't even fucking stand to address the judge
Super lawyer? More like super incompetent.Some absolute fucking GEMS
Judge didn't know Beard was a lawyer
He doesn't even fucking stand to address the judge
Fear the Beard? More like Can't Even Ty His Own Shoes. This is a level of incompetence that exceeds expectations.Some absolute fucking GEMS
Judge didn't know Beard was a lawyer
He doesn't even fucking stand to address the judge
This isn't even the most embarrassing thing he did. Right at the end he basically said the confidentiality request was bullshit and they were only making it to avoid an Anti-SLAPP before deposing the defendants. Bull had to step in and basically go "No, ignore him. It's because we might talk about contracts."Some absolute fucking GEMS
Judge didn't know Beard was a lawyer
He doesn't even fucking stand to address the judge
Fear the Beard? More like Can't Even Ty His Own Shoes. This is a level of incompetence that exceeds expectations.
He probably would have been fine if he lay low and came back after making an apology and people would have forgotten about itHere's what I don't get.
If by some insane miracle, Vic wins his lawsuit, do his fans think he'll get his job back?
If anything, he'll just be blacklisted by all the major studios. Hell, he's probably already blacklisted.
Hey yeah he lost his ability to get a job in acting. Only job he can get is through friends like with Nick Robinson.Here's what I don't get.
If by some insane miracle, Vic wins his lawsuit, do his fans think he'll get his job back?
If anything, he'll just be blacklisted by all the major studios. Hell, he's probably already blacklisted.
If anyone would rather read the transcript as a PDF, I have it here:
You got to be fucking kidding me?Some absolute fucking GEMS
Judge didn't know Beard was a lawyer
He doesn't even fucking stand to address the judge
More or less. It doesn't even need to be that long or drawn out though, legal fees are expensive so scaring people with nonsense lawsuits like this can make them panic and give up quickly.So basically, Funi and Monica's team believe that Beard and co are trying to basically exhaust them financially with a long, drawn-out legal battle that they have no intention of actually winning, and they just hired lawyers who specialize in shutting down that kind of legal campaign?
So basically, Funi and Monica's team believe that Beard and co are trying to basically exhaust them financially with a long, drawn-out legal battle that they have no intention of actually winning, and they just hired lawyers who specialize in shutting down that kind of legal campaign?
The judge pretty much asked Vic's lawyers this same question.Here's what I don't get.
If by some insane miracle, Vic wins his lawsuit, do his fans think he'll get his job back?
If anything, he'll just be blacklisted by all the major studios. Hell, he's probably already blacklisted.
I've been saying for months now that those livestreams would come back to bite Beard in the ass.Y'all should read some of the latest tweets from Doucette and such. They amended the motion to compel, and there's now more emails at the end that are even more laughable. Beard responding to very professional emails about harassment concerns with all the tact of a Twitter rando.
Not to mention one of the other unrelated lawyers that's commenting on this talking about how all this is just going to invite the defense being able to bring in what Beard's done with Nick and KF and such.
Starting to think the way he acts might actually blow up in his face.
Yep, I have seen a bunch of idiots thinking that if Vic wins this Funimation will be ordered to reinstate his contracts and give him even more roles.The judge pretty much asked Vic's lawyers this same question.
And a lot of his stans legit think that he'll end up owning Funimation...