It's crazy you know the amount of skill and dedication you need just to defend against retards. Dealing with retarded lawsuits should not require someone as capable as Hardin honestly.
It helps when the court liberally construes Russ's retardbabble in the most positive way imaginable. It's what makes this case particularly bizarre because I'm sitting here thinking "well, if they're gonna do this, what the hell is the point in hiring an attorney?"
Seriously, the entire reasoning for having a lawyer do this shit is that they better understand the law and know how to interpret it properly. Plus all the nuance involved with correctly filing motions, formatting arguments, referencing cases, etc., but here you have Russell Greer screeching through several hundred fillings with an ungodly amount of typos or poor grammar without any negative reprocrussions.
I know a partial explanation for Russ getting a pass for his behavior, especially at the 10th circuit, is the defendant's relationship with Kiwi Farms, a website, but Jesus. The courts are sending a message that you don't need a lawyer as long as you pretend to be a retard, which you would think that is the type of person who you'd absolutely want to have a lawyer.
The judge already threatened case ending sanctions if Greer did not produce a copy of the restraining order application which he proclaimed he was eager to do and Greer already blew past that deadline. Unlike the district judge who set another deadline for Russ to miss, the magistrate didn't say anything. Everyone knows that when dad is threatening to law down the law that he's pissed, but it's when he's gone quiet that they're really in trouble.
We shall see. The magistrate more than implied at the May 6th hearing that dismissal was on the table if Russ didn't get the application to Harden, but it's ultimately up to the district judge no matter what. Lo and behold, not only didn't Russ fail to get the application to Harden AFTER requesting (and receiving) an extension, but he's still arguing about being forced to do it when he was the one who used the existence of the document in the first place!!!
Now, I'm a retard that makes assumptions based on common sense, but I have to imagine the district judge and magistrate are pretty tuned in to each other as far as cases they're both on since the magistrate is essentially speaking for the district judge. With the magistrate on the May 6th hearing saying "do this you retard or the case could get dismissed" and the most recent order from the district judge saying "you shall pay the sanction, or else, stalker child" I have to believe both judge are aware of the situation at this point. That they've both given Russ a zillion opportunities while he's continued being willfully recalcitrant on every fucking little thing.
Who the hell knows. I love the entertainment but then I remember that tax dollars are being used for this. I guess it could be worse though. It could be money spent on tranny shit.
It would be a test of whether Greer likes going after the Kiwifarms or brothels/hookers more. In trying times men's souls are tested but usually not over something this frivolous.
We shall see. Russ's entire MO is asking for forgiveness rather than permission and then raising a fuss when people start looking deeper into what he was asking to forgive. He was able to get by like that his entire adult life because he drools with his broken face and people felt bad for him, so no one bothered to question him since they assumed he's legitimately retarded.
Then everything began to unravel when people started investigating his shenanigans.
Personally, if there's significant cost to appeal, I don't see it happen. Not for lack of want. Just that he has to view this specific case as a lost cause if it gets dismissed. Even if he were to win the appeal, all that does is earn him the right to start back at square one all over again. Then there's all the cost associated with that. Costs he can't screech his way out of by IFP (or IPF) no matter how much he wants.