Hey, Litigation Disaster Tourists! Musk went and did it. He filed the SLAPP suit against Media Matters. This thing will likely rival the Trump election suits for frivolity so let's read it together, why don't we? - ThreadSky

akivamcohen.bsky.social • 468 days ago

Hey, Litigation Disaster Tourists!

Musk went and did it. He filed the SLAPP suit against Media Matters. This thing will likely rival the Trump election suits for frivolity so let's read it together, why don't we?

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adamwright.bsky.social•468 days ago

I’m so excited to be here at the beginning of this one!

justlindy.bsky.social•463 days ago

You make an excellent point.

angryplantain.bsky.social•468 days ago

@unroll.bsky.social please unroll

tzabar.bsky.social•468 days ago

owlinautumn.bsky.social•466 days ago

alxrogan.com•468 days ago

And of course our shithead AG sent a letter as well. The Stone lawyer took a LOA to defend Paxton in his impeachment, was paid by the state then never returned and formed his new company.

feralnietzsche.bsky.social•468 days ago

Third name on the brief is the former SG of Texas.

nocatsnomasters.bsky.social•468 days ago

I dunno, I mean, isn't part of what's wrong with the world that even those of good intent are focused on the bad and the wrong instead of promoting the good in all of....

man, I don't even know who I'm kidding. Directly into my veins, law-guy.

hal10000.bsky.social•468 days ago

Just a second. Popcorn in the microwave.

mlbiam.dev•468 days ago

Ooo...haven't gone on a litigation disaster trip in a while

upuptothesky.bsky.social•468 days ago

Grateful for your thread. Oddly it's only showing in your "Posts and replies" column, not "Posts." You may want to quote skeet the whole thing cause it's a gem.

ottovonbisbark.bsky.social•468 days ago

They’re not even admitted? I was admitted to all Texas federal courts within a few months of passing the bar. This is going to be good….

sagebiel.bsky.social•468 days ago

@charles-ex.bsky.social

annlaabs.bsky.social•468 days ago

And here I was, missing the Threadnought, and Billionaire Manbaby takes up the slack.

akivamcohen.bsky.social•468 days ago

Complaint is here. First thing I want to do when someone files a transparently ridiculous lolsuit is look at both jurisdiction and which lawyers filed it.

And ... hooo. Boy. Wow. Does this ever tell some stories

ilisabat.bsky.social•468 days ago

Hold up. Admission pending to the federal bar?

I'm not admitted to the federal bar, but that's because I'm disabled and I neither file nor appear in court!

ilisabat.bsky.social•468 days ago

And the northern district of Texas has reciprocity jurisdiction!!!!

lareyne.bsky.social•468 days ago

A lolsuit. For me it will ever thus be known from now on

ndhoyalaw.bsky.social•468 days ago

For everything this Complaint is or isn’t, the dumbass name of the company makes me think that they were drafting this complaint on behalf of an unknown company. “John Doe, Jane Roe, and X Corp.”

akivamcohen.bsky.social•468 days ago

Let's start with the choice of counsel.

In the Merger Agreement litigation between Musk and Twitter, he was represented by Skadden Arps, the whitest of white-shoe biglaw firms.

In the litigation with Twitter's former employees, X Corp is represented by biglaw - Morgan Lewis.

mithras.bsky.social•468 days ago

And in this case... both of those skipped for J. Random Chucklefucks.

akivamcohen.bsky.social•468 days ago

In Concord Music v. X Corp, X is defended by Quinn Emanuel - biglaw. Gjoni v. Twitter? Morgan Lewis. Gerber v. Twitter? Quinn Emanuel.

Case after case, big and small, Musk's twitter is represented by the largest law firms in the country.

Stone Hilton and SL Law? Not in that category

akivamcohen.bsky.social•468 days ago

And if you look at that sig block closely, it doesn't seem like anyone from biglaw is riding to the rescue for Elon here. The folks from Stone Hilton are "admission pending" - meaning they're not local counsel who happens to be already admitted in the court of choice. They're the ones who are asking

akivamcohen.bsky.social•468 days ago

to be allowed to practice in the Northern District of Texas. (Typically, you get local counsel who is already admitted, and then lead counsel asks to be admitted "pro hac vice" [for this one case]).

So why isn't Elon using biglaw this time?

abracadocious.bsky.social•468 days ago

Perhaps no one in biglaw wanted to file a SLAPP.

noospheric.bsky.social•468 days ago

Northern District has some weird local rules. Who did it get assigned to?

erikgunderson.bsky.social•468 days ago

We would love to say "Because no biglaw firm would want to sign off on a lawsuit like this" but we also know better than that.

qlippot.bsky.social•468 days ago

I'd wager because this is an ill-advised suit shot from the hip and all the expensive lawyers tried to talk him out of it (or he reasoned they would and avoided them for that reason).

akivamcohen.bsky.social•468 days ago

Well, one reason is he went with politically connected Texas lawyers, reflecting the extent to which people think that Texas courts are political actors, not legal actors. All three of the lawyers in that signature block have backgrounds with the Texas AG's office or Solicitor General's office

szreich.bsky.social•468 days ago

I don't know, but if this case ever results in any in-person hearings, I'd be more than happy to personally attend and serve as LDT's on-location reporter.

omrimarian.bsky.social•468 days ago

Isn't that the firm that represented Paxton in the impeachment trial?

athul.acharya.cc•468 days ago

Stone is Judd Stone, former SG of Texas. It's exactly who I'd go to if I were bringing this suit tbh

omrimarian.bsky.social•468 days ago

So Paxton starts an investigation and his friends bring the slapp suit?
Cool. Cool, cool, cool.

prosediva.bsky.social•467 days ago

Isn’t this a problem?

akivamcohen.bsky.social•467 days ago

Yep

thefoxmother.bsky.social•468 days ago

🍿🍿🍿

scottw.bsky.social•468 days ago

Cedar Hill stuck out to me. I’m from the area. It’s sorta a… let’s say it’s not fluffy, like, for instance, Turtle Creek in Dallas is for Sidney Powell.

You might can smell phosphorus in Cedar Creek, in other words.

chickenlady.bsky.social•467 days ago

I do hope, Media Matters gathers all the people who have been horribly wronged by Melon and call them all as witnesses, no matter how.
Just let everyone prove what an a.. he is

glenuendo.bsky.social•468 days ago

Fucking Texas? Jesus.

monoesque.bsky.social•467 days ago

thank you for this thread, but goddamn does bsky make it a pain to read. every 10 skeets you have to click "more". who at bsky thought that was good design?!

fraudguy.bsky.social•467 days ago

Oh, I miss the gifs but not the Xitter.

doughfiend.bsky.social•468 days ago

Looking forward to this rocket crashing in court. But it is Texas so who knows if he gets slapped. X marks the spot for a hopeful crash landing.

rockshrimp.bsky.social•468 days ago

Doesn’t matter if he can bankrupt the outlets before the case gets thrown out.

rubyjean.bsky.social•468 days ago

He is following in trump's footsteps for sure.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•467 days ago

Is it just me, or is his entire argument that not *all* adverts are placed next to actual Nazis?

madamehardy.bsky.social•467 days ago

"Also, only one of those nine antisemitic posts violated our standards, so that's okay then."

shadur.bsky.social•467 days ago

"The other eight were still disgustingly antisemitic, but since our standards are the only ones that matter it should be okay"

akivamcohen.bsky.social•467 days ago

"the vast majority of your ads won't be next to neonazis"

halfcockedlaw.bsky.social•467 days ago

"Only Nazis who want to see Nazi content will see your ads next to the Nazi content."

youtackything.bsky.social•467 days ago

That argument could work with the advertisers! "The only people who will see your ads next to Nazi content are people who *like* Nazi content and therefore will like your brand more!"

beholdnec.bsky.social•467 days ago

One thing Elon is trying to obscure is that it's not hard for the average user to find Nazi content, especially when Elon personally endorses it. MM's article showed only the tip of the iceberg.

curfewx.bsky.social•467 days ago

Not at all. At any time, if you type "H---ler was right" into the search bar, and click the "latest" tab, you can watch the hate roll right in.

rcownie.bsky.social•467 days ago

Oracle's fine with it.

youtackything.bsky.social•467 days ago

Well, consider the demographic.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•467 days ago

Little known fact: ORACLE is an acronym.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•467 days ago

You make a fair point, especially when trying to view it from Elmo’s POV.

rcownie.bsky.social•467 days ago

"Ads will only be placed next to posts that meet community standards. Community standards are whatever's in posts next to ads. The algorithm is undeniable."

lizardky.bsky.social•467 days ago

"But they will continue to fund our support of neo-nazis."

rlorenz.bsky.social•467 days ago

My “we rarely place ads next to explicitly bigoted content” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my shirt.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•467 days ago

It’s like something out of Crazy People. “Come to New York, there were fewer murders last year”.

cloudsec9.bsky.social•467 days ago

The amazing thing is they just utterly ignore that they could avoid this problem by banning or taking Nazis out of most people's feeds, but it seems like that isn't a consideration.
And people think the guy is a brain-genius.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•453 days ago

I'm beginning to think the injection of Nazis into people's Xitter feeds is a feature, not a bug.

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