Richard Meyer v. Mark Waid (2018)

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Waid Livestream - What will happen?

  • Talks about the lawsuit.

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Further incriminates himself.

    Votes: 18 48.6%

  • Defames YaBoi again.

    Votes: 5 13.5%

  • Doesn't talk about the lawsuit nor CG.

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • Host disagrees with Waid on something, chimpout insues.

    Votes: 7 18.9%

  • Normal interview. (no drama)

    Votes: 2 5.4%
  • Total voters
    37
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"There is no way I could know he was in Texas because his PUBLIC twitter profile listed New York"

Except for starting in February 2018 Zack would post about two videos per day where he'd spend the first five minutes rambling about his Austin apartment, eating breakfast burritos from HEB, and later living on the border. I'm sure he never obsessively watched videos looking for comments he could use to bitch about him nor was he in any facebook private groups or group chats where his friends were watching them.

Also never mind that the indiegogo page for the book he wanted cancelled listed "Austin, United States" as the location. Nope, just no way to know he was in Texas.
 
I got a little distracted from the drama and just remembered Zaid's recent attempt to be a good SJW and transition, only he's trying to change from counsel to co-defendant instead from man to woman. :story:
 
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Not a lawyer, but here's how i understand it will go down.
Judge has some time to decide if the lawsuit should be filed in Texas or not (it totally does). After the judge decides it fits in Texas Waid's team will file a TCPA? (Texas SLAPP) to try and get the lawsuit dismissed as frivolous / no case. Meyer will respond and judge decides if there is a case (there is). Then it moves on to trial. All of this is going to take a long arse time.

Meyer filed in September? last year and they still haven't decided that it belongs in Texas court yet, despite the 2 parties with a contract being in Texas and Waid reaching into Texas to interfere with that contract.
 
Puddleduck said:
Yeah I'm an exceptional individual when it comes to legal stuff, what does this mean?
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It means Waid is a complete and total idiot. And he apparently just broke a confidentiality agreement with Meyer and Byrne. The only parts of the deposition we have seen were those included in the filings so far. The rest was supposed to be kept private by agreement.

I really feel for this shitheads lawyer. Judging by the quality of Pierces most recent filing, you sense a deep “don’t give no more fucks” with regard to his case and client. Can you imagine trying to represent and advise this unhinged man baby?
 
RodgerDodger said:
It means Waid is a complete and total idiot. And he apparently just broke a confidentiality agreement with Meyer and Byrne. The only parts of the deposition we have seen were those included in the filings so far. The rest was supposed to be kept private by agreement.

I really feel for this shitheads lawyer. Judging by the quality of Pierces most recent filing, you sense a deep “don’t give no more fucks” with regard to his case and client. Can you imagine trying to represent and advise this unhinged man baby?
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So that doesn't mean the actual case has been thrown out, things are still good for Meyer?
 
Puddleduck said:
So that doesn't mean the actual case has been thrown out, things are still good for Meyer?
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It's not thrown out and probably won't be.

If you watch Rekieta's videos on the more recent filings, Zack has very good evidence and case law to back his positions. Waid has 'I didn't know', battered wife evidence, bad readings of case law and keeps arguing merits of the case, when they are meant to be arguing jurisdiction. As Rekieta said but hey you gotta file something.

Or as AnOminous put it
AnOminous said:
This reminds me of an old saying. If the facts are on your side, bang on the facts. If the law is on your side, bang on the law. If neither is on your side, bang on the table.

This is just a dumb filing. It's barely worth addressing. "Plaintiff entirely hangs his case for jurisdiction. . ." no, did this guy even read the filings up until this point? Did whoever wrote this just hatch from an egg?

It's just dumb.

Also it repeatedly argues about the merits of the case that the court hasn't even decided if it has jurisdiction over. Unprofessional.
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Puddleduck said:
So that doesn't mean the actual case has been thrown out, things are still good for Meyer?
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The case hasn’t been thrown out. Waid is much like Shane or Ron Toye over in Weeb Wars. Waid gets in one small point and declares that invalidates everything else and he wins. Everybody clap. Note that Waid’s declaration of victory post is an e-begging for his go fund me legal fund. So no, it hasn’t been thrown out.

One other thing to note, as Meyer points out in today’s video, Zaid and Waid are now claiming that the lawsuit is a publicity stunt to sell Meyers comics. This tells us that they absolutely know they will lose on Jurisdiction, and are trying to build a fake public narrative for the Anti-SLAPP filing. Which they will also lose.
 
Puddleduck said:
So that doesn't mean the actual case has been thrown out, things are still good for Meyer?
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It's still on track. Dunn's answer -which caused Waid's pathetic little manbaby victory tantrum- isn't good but isn't that bad. Afterall Dunn stated prior in his text messages to Waid that he would take all responsibility for canceling Jawbreakers. At the end he is the publisher from AP and makes that decision, not Waid.
Nevertheless, that doesn't mean Waid didn't interfer in this decision with his phone call. Despite he keeps saying that he only wanted to "inform" AP about the whole situation of the drama and "never" intended to push them to drop Jawbreakers, he seemed oddly cheerful when Dunn informed him about the cancelation of Meyer's book.
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Sounds to me like Waid really, REALLY wanted AP to drop Meyer's book when he called AP.
To cite a greater man: "But who I am. I'm just a guy in the internet".
 
Puddleduck said:
So that doesn't mean the actual case has been thrown out, things are still good for Meyer?
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Things remain quite good for Meyer. Waid’s filing regarding Jurisdiction was not simply stupid, it was bordering on insane, Basically claiming that if he sticks his fingers in his ears and denies ever hearing of a place called Rexas, he is not subject to Texas laws and courts. Essentially his core argument is he is too fucking stupid to be subjected to Texas Jurisdiction. He claims he was completely ignorant that any of this involved Texas, even as he willfully called a Texas area code. Oh and Defamation committed while standing in Texas doesn’t count because Meyer said it was on the Internet.

This final stupidity is he is claiming he wins because in deposition he asked Joe Dunn the AP owner “did Mark Waid force you to cancel the contract?” “To which he replied “no,”. Yay! Victory for the Superhero Waid! Take that Nazi’s! Except there is clear documentation and evidence of Waid’s bullying. And what Dunn says has little weight in a TI case.where he was the one bullied.

He really is fucking insane. How has he survived this long in the industry?
 
Puddleduck said:
So that doesn't mean the actual case has been thrown out, things are still good for Meyer?
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I'm not going to get into the weeds of Waid's insane arguments, but the long/short of it is that nothing's changed.

You can see in the deposition text how carefully Waid's lawyers crafted the questions to get the answers they wanted. No one is arguing that Dunn didn't make the decision on his own, or that Waid explicitly blackmailed them. The fight is over whether Waid's phone call was a factor that led Dunn to changing his mind and cancelling Jawbreakers. Considering that Dunn went from publishing > phone call > not publishing, its not hard to draw the conclusion that it did.

Also, none of this has anything to do with the current jurisdictional motion before the court. Waid's just making a stink because he's burning through money and wants to bolster his gofundme by claiming minor victories in his righteous war against mean youtube man.
 
UnderwaterOlympics said:
Waid posted a gofundme update via facebook begging for money and trying to shape the narrative to maintain any semblance of respect after he loses.
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His words say the case is shot below the waterline, sinking and about to be dismissed immediately.

His actions of pumping his GFM vigorously say "oh holy fuck I'm fucked I'm so fucking fucked I'm looking down the barrel of a Texas jury please give me money I don't want to sell my action figure collection!"

This is absurd bravado since the current motion to dismiss has nearly zero chance of being granted. It's going right to TCPA after that and on a tight schedule (within 14 days of the ruling after the parties agreed to stay the usual time limit while the jurisdiction is decided).

The actual TCPA stuff itself will go lightning fast as legal stuff goes, with a decision likely before the end of the year.

If the decision isn't a dismissal, it's at least going to discuss the merits of the case and specifically whether the suit alleges colorable claims (i.e. claims the plaintiff could win if the facts go his way).

Urbanmech said:
What is that case Nick keeps talking about from 2009 that sets the precident for TI even though they plan on breaking the contract?
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Knox v. Taylor, 992 S.W.2d 40 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1999, no pet.).
 
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AnOminous said:
His words say the case is shot below the waterline, sinking and about to be dismissed immediately.

His actions of pumping his GFM vigorously say "oh holy fuck I'm fucked I'm so fucking fucked I'm looking down the barrel of a Texas jury please give me money I don't want to sell my action figure collection!"

This is absurd bravado since the current motion to dismiss has nearly zero chance of being granted. It's going right to TCPA after that and on a tight schedule (within 14 days of the ruling after the parties agreed to stay the usual time limit while the jurisdiction is decided).

The actual TCPA stuff itself will go lightning fast as legal stuff goes, with a decision likely before the end of the year.

If the decision isn't a dismissal, it's at least going to discuss the merits of the case and specifically whether the suit alleges colorable claims (i.e. claims the plaintiff could win if the facts go his way).
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I was waiting for @AnOminous to weigh in on Waid's sermon, and I was not disappointed.
 
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