Richard Meyer v. Mark Waid (2018)

[RockVolnutt]

Also , but imagine he sits down, watches all of YaBoi’s videos and finds out, “oh crap this guy isn’t a Nazi, what the fuck have I done”. I doubt it will happen but it’d be interesting.

Hell, considering Zaid’s actions throughout this case, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d been turned already.

Mandatory public decapitations preformed by superior black women for all who insult the majestic Riri Williams the Illustrious. It should be law.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Wait, didn't YaBoi assert diversity though? If not, wouldn't the case be in state court, or do you need to establish that personal jurisdiction is proper before removing the case to federal court?


You can sue in a state if they have established a presence in the state by means of consistent and systematic contacts that are related to a matter in dispute that occurred within that state. Alternatively, if the relevant parties are from separate states and the amount that the plaintiff is arguing for is over $75k, then you can sue in federal court under state law. There's also jurisdiction if it's a dispute involving a federal issue, or if the person is present in the state and was physically served. Lots of ways, in short.

What I was saying is if you're trying to establish personal jurisdiction (the first thing I mentioned), the defendant's contacts need to be related to the lawsuit.



Idk if Comic book writers own the IPs though, and I thought most of his business ventures failed, but I'll defer to you if you've got insider knowledge.

You're forgetting that he can't apologize to the enemy, he's the self-righteous arbiter of justice. In any case, he's got Zaid as his lead counsel, so I doubt he's getting any solid legal advice.

But that's just it. The Lawsuit is the second option there. In Federal Court under Diversity Jurisdiction. I assume what Zaid's main point is is the Texas Law should not be the applicable, because that looks to be much worse for Waid?

Waid has a few creator owned IP's. Not the Marvel or DC stuff. His Irredeemable and Incorruptable properties. Plus he may have some properties back from the Crossgen days. The IP ownership there was kind of weird if I recall? He probably has a few others that I don't remember. Noth

When i first replied to this i was in the mindset that it would be too early for the 75k to run out, now...
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Zack has ~1400 videos mostly in the 10-20min range. Even if he got some 'tips' for the juiciest videos or had some cheaper underling do it. That 80k Gofundme isn't going to last, the Marky Marks may ask the funky bunch for more sooner than i anticipated.

That’s... wow i’m Impressed at just how horribly unprofessional that is. Internet shit flinging at someone who might end up on the witness list? Whatever happened to the days when lawyers were taught to always speak carefully, and with an eye towards how it would impact their client, themselves and their profession? Your lawyer is not supposed to be broadening your pool of Defamation victims for you. Nor encouraging others to delve deeper and perhaps elevate your antics from a business dispute between two parties to Federal Crimes involving anti competitive business practices and collusion. Does Zaid not realize that that Facebook group of industry insiders gets blown open in Discovery? And others might take in interest in its findings? Such as the dude he accused of running a hate group?

 

[AnOminous]

But that's just it. The Lawsuit is the second option there. In Federal Court under Diversity Jurisdiction. I assume what Zaid's main point is is the Texas Law should not be the applicable, because that looks to be much worse for Waid?

The problem there is that it's entirely possible that even if the case didn't get tried in Texas because of whatever sleazeball maneuvers someone smarter than he is might be able to pull, the choice of law provisions could still end up in the case being tried under Texas law wherever it is tried. The locus of the contract, after all, is Texas, and how it is interpreted must be according to Texas law, therefore Texas has the strongest interest in its laws regarding such a contract being applied to it.

It would still be as open and shut as it is now, just somewhat more expensive for the plaintiff.

It's pretty hypothetical, though, since no way Waid wins the personal jurisdiction argument. It was already ridiculous even buttressed with Mark Waid's perjury, and now it doesn't even have that.

 

[El Jagre]

So someone found what appears to be Mark Zaid's YouTube account, and he's got some real interesting liked videos.

 

[Water-T]

When i first replied to this i was in the mindset that it would be too early for the 75k to run out, now...
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Zack has ~1400 videos mostly in the 10-20min range. Even if he got some 'tips' for the juiciest videos or had some cheaper underling do it. That 80k Gofundme isn't going to last, the Marky Marks may ask the funky bunch for more sooner than i anticipated.

LOL. I can't wait for Zaid to present Waid the bill for this

Waid: "You're billing me $50,000 for watching YouTube videos? All to find a few minutes of Meyer calling people mean names?"

Zaid: "Do you know how many hours upon hours of coughing I had to listen to? Be glad I'm not charging you per cough"

 

[RodgerDodger]

LOL. I can't wait for Zaid to present Waid the bill for this

Waid: "You're billing me $50,000 for watching YouTube videos? All to find a few minutes of Meyer calling people mean names?"

Zaid: "Do you know how many hours upon hours of coughing I had to listen to? Be glad I'm not charging you per cough"

After about an hour of listening to D&C ramble I can picture Zaid just melting down and screaming “would you just get to the fucking point already!!!” At his computer.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

LOL. I can't wait for Zaid to present Waid the bill for this

Waid: "You're billing me $50,000 for watching YouTube videos? All to find a few minutes of Meyer calling people mean names?"

Zaid: "Do you know how many hours upon hours of coughing I had to listen to? Be glad I'm not charging you per cough"

I wonder if Zaid is charging Waid by the hour to keep up with his KF threads?

 

[AnOminous]

I wonder if Zaid is charging Waid by the hour to keep up with his KF threads?

He should charge him on a per-shitpost basis.

 

[AprilRains]

He should charge him on a per-shitpost basis.

KA-CHING!

 

[DragoonSierra]

>defendant: Mark Waid


Also , but imagine he sits down, watches all of YaBoi’s videos and finds out, “oh crap this guy isn’t a Nazi, what the fuck have I done”. I doubt it will happen but it’d be interesting.

Hell, considering Zaid’s actions throughout this case, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d been turned already.

Rackets Livestream - (13:25)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EQvHClDpAHQEDIT:
Around 33min mark: Rackets explains that he will be making a separate video on the CG lawsuit about the 3rd document because he needs to prep for it.

Apparently in this video, Rackets says that Zaid is a friends with a comic book store owner in Texas. Im gonna assume hes not a partial owner or even involved with this friends business but what if he was? Would there be some sort of repercussions if its found out that the twitter sperging may be benefiting this comic shop?

He also said that allegedly people who worked at other jobs other than AP say they were contacted at their other jobs.

He should charge him on a per-shitpost basis.

Maybe we should start posting long screeds with hidden Nazi messages?

 

[Jub-Jub]

Apparently in this video, Rackets says that Zaid is a friends with a comic book store owner in Texas. Im gonna assume hes not a partial owner or even involved with this friends business but what if he was? Would there be some sort of repercussions if its found out that the twitter sperging may be benefiting this comic shop?

He also said that allegedly people who worked at other jobs other than AP say they were contacted at their other jobs.

I believe it's been alleged that Zaid is friends of the owner of the comic book shop that Mark Waid was providing free* signatures to, in Texas in March? (there may be screenshots of this tweet, but i haven't seen it) So it's possible he should have known about MW's perjury earlier
*with purchase of MW book

AP owners do publishing as a side job, they are apparently medical professionals and were contacted at their practice during the time-frame. I've heard it alleged that MW contacted the medical practices of the owners and not just AP, but it's not been proven.

 

[RockVolnutt]

Maybe we should start posting long screeds with hidden Nazi messages?

How do you suppose we do that? Even if we did, that seems like something you'd do when you're fourteen. I think we should strive to be as mature as possible compared to other idiots talking about this case. Look at some of these twitter posters that'll have a gas accusing us of the silliest things.

Have we sank that low that this is peak creativity? I have a friends who are Jews, Nazi jokes should not be tolerated. These are dark times for comics. Larry Hama recently went on a rant about CG and I like him, even if he peaked in 88. Every day it's a comic pro just bitching about their audience. Ren too but who cares about her.

 

[The Doktor]

Apparently in this video, Rackets says that Zaid is a friends with a comic book store owner in Texas. Im gonna assume hes not a partial owner or even involved with this friends business but what if he was? Would there be some sort of repercussions if its found out that the twitter sperging may be benefiting this comic shop?

He also said that allegedly people who worked at other jobs other than AP say they were contacted at their other jobs.

Zaid knows the guy that runs Bedrock Comics (a small chain around Houston) where Waid did his signing outside of the convention that was free with the purchase of any Waid-written book. But honestly? That’s a tenuous connection. Hell, I know the guy. I’ve done business with him before. And to the best of my knowledge, he has no co-owners.

Zaid also represents a number of other industry players (CGC, Overstreet, etc) and it’s a small community of big-dollar buyers like Zaid. I know a lot of those retailers/vendors/high-dollar-figure book sellers & have their cell phone numbers. If I do, Zaid does too.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Apparently in this video, Rackets says that Zaid is a friends with a comic book store owner in Texas. Im gonna assume hes not a partial owner or even involved with this friends business but what if he was? Would there be some sort of repercussions if its found out that the twitter sperging may be benefiting this comic shop?

He also said that allegedly people who worked at other jobs other than AP say they were contacted at their other jobs.


Maybe we should start posting long screeds with hidden Nazi messages?

How or why? Zaid can do things that benefit a friends business or his own so long as they don’t inflict direct harm on others. The only major question regarding Zaid knowing the store owner is it clearly indicates he was aware of the store and it’s location. It also makes it likely or at least reasonable to ask if Zaid was awRe of Waid’s event at the store earlier this year, given the direct triangle of relations between Waid, Zaid and the store. Did Zaid get the Stores regular bulletins and announcements? Did he get one about the Mark Waid book signing? If he was aware of that book signing why did he allow his client to file claims before the court that he conducted no business in Texas in order to challenge the Jurisdiction? As the Lawyer you are not supposed to sign off on the filing when you know your client is lying in his afadavit.

And yes to clarify the people contacted at other jobs bit. The owner of AP is a practicing Physician. Waid hunted down the business number for his Medical Practice and called him there. Probably not of any real legal value beyond the basic fact that it is nearly impossible to find the phone number for a Medical Practice or Physician without discovering the State or locality it is in. Waid didn’t call the Doctors cell phone. He called in through the MD office receptionist. There is no way he was not aware that it was a Texas business.

 

[Adamska]

Zack has ~1400 videos mostly in the 10-20min range. Even if he got some 'tips' for the juiciest videos or had some cheaper underling do it. That 80k Gofundme isn't going to last, the Marky Marks may ask the funky bunch for more sooner than i anticipated.

It's possible, but a comment I remember and one that is very accurate is Zaid's chumming with the shrieking weirdo brigade who instantly copies your worst items to share around and try to poison the well if you commit wrongthink. The big problem is that the worst thing Zack has is his dark roast according to these psychotic piles of shit, meaning that Zaid wasted "his best shot" on that frivolous jurisdiction argument.

He ain't gonna get proof that will stop the defamation by showing that yaboi's a nazi; he should try something else.

Rackets Livestream - (13:25)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EQvHClDpAHQEDIT:
Around 33min mark: Rackets explains that he will be making a separate video on the CG lawsuit about the 3rd document because he needs to prep for it.

I tried and lost interest in this video because Rackets had to sperg like an autist about free speech and politics throughout this particular video, ruining what should have been a comedic video about how both King Cuck and Manchild Waid got their shit slapped.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

He ain't gonna get proof that will stop the defamation by showing that yaboi's a nazi; he should try something else.

Serious question: what else has he got?

 

[Adamska]

Serious question: what else has he got?

He did try and make it look like Waid is such a fucking moron that he didn't know that AP was Texan, and that what he says on Zack was just opinions. Problem is Manchild Waid is too busy trying to get asspats for "looking like the hero" to keep to this lie; the dumb fuck committed perjury trying to use this defense.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Serious question: what else has he got?

In their minds what else does he need? “He’s a Nazi!” Is proof of guilt.

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

Serious question: what else has he got?

in terms for this thread? More poorly written and thought out legal hijinks that piss off the judge more,

 

[AnOminous]

He did try and make it look like Waid is such a fucking moron that he didn't know that AP was Texan, and that what he says on Zack was just opinions. Problem is Manchild Waid is too busy trying to get asspats for "looking like the hero" to keep to this lie; the dumb fuck committed perjury trying to use this defense.

The specific statement that was perjury:

You notice he opens with bullshit and tries to bury his activities in Texas in parentheses, but the very last sentence is an outright lie.