fatigues_gasolini
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So what lawyer is actually agreeing to take these cases?
They are representing themselves
So what lawyer is actually agreeing to take these cases?
More like Digital Suicide
They are representing themselves
So what game of theirs is getting bad reviews?
Romine is representing himself.
Someone needs to put that company out of its misery.
More like Digital Suicide
None, he / they are representing themselves.
Romine is representing himself.
They are representing themselves
So they are essentially just wasting tax payer money to pursue bogus legal claims.
I won't be surprised if Valve get fed up and just ban them from selling on Steam.
What a poorly constructed complaint. The causes of action are just inexplicable. I realize he's a pro se litigant, but, damn. He really shouldn't have even bothered.
Count I - Conspiracy to Commit Violation of Civil Rights -- Nope.
Count II - Disorderly Conduct -- What the fuck? Nope.
Counts III - Stalking -- Sues under a criminal statute. I can find no civil cause of action in Arizona for "stalking."
Count IV - Harassment -- Sues under a criminal statute. I can find no civil cause of action in Arizona for "harassment".
Count V - Criminal Impersonation -- Sues under a criminal statute. I can find no civil cause of action in Arizona for "criminal impersonation," though identity theft and/or, possibly, invasion of privacy are potential analogues for the facts he's alleging.
Count VI - Tortious Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations with Valve -- Finally, an actual, potentially appropriate, cause of action. However, Arizona requires a plaintiff to allege that they "suffered damages due to the breach or termination of the contractual relationship," and Romine fails to allege that Digital Homicides' contract with Valve was breached or terminated in any way. So...
Count VII - Tortious Intentional Interference with Contractual Relations with Digital Homicide Studios LLC -- What the fuck?
Count VIII - Libel Per Se - I think Romine misunderstands the type of statements which constitute libel per se versus libel per quod. There may be a cognizable claim here for libel per quod, but not per se.
Count IX - Unjust Enrichment - What the fuck? He doesn't make a claim for unjust enrichment, and asks for damages equal to anything the purported defendants have ever made or ever will make from anything video game related, from creating games, to streaming/publishing videos on Twitch and YouTube. Just, wow.
Count X - Restitution -- Again, what the fuck? There is no cause of action for restitution.
Count XI - Negligence -- Other than the fact that Romine has alleged nothing but intentional acts, there's nothing wrong with this claim. He uses the language "reckless disregard" with indicates to me that maybe he meant to file a claim for wantonness? Who knows.
Other than the issues above, the biggest thing that sticks out to me, is that Romine doesn't even seem to have standing to assert these claims. All of these claims, to the extent that they exist, would seem to belong to Digital Homicide Studios LLC. Hell, Romine even realizes this with respect to his Criminal Impersonation claim, where he writes:
143. This cause of action may not be representable by The Plaintiff except by The Plaintiff's ownership of 35% of Digital Homicide Studios LLC. This representation is left up to the The Court. Cause of action dropped if The Court decides against.
I'm not sure why he thought there might be an issue with respect to this claim, but not to the others.
Of course, we know why he filed suit as an individual and not as Digital Homicide Studios LLC: corporations are not allowed to represent themselves pro se in federal court. They must be represented by an attorney. Even if Digital Homicide could find an attorney willing to take the case, I doubt they'd find one willing to do this on contingency. "Sure, let's sue 100 random Steam users. I'm sure our potential $18m judgement will absolutely be collectable." Nope.
This just seems like one giant hissy fit, at this point.
I can't wait to see their reaction when they lose all of this.
I refuse to believe there could possibly be a defense force for these twits.
Yeah they published some asset-flips under different names. Like ECC Games.Thats not all of them
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_7_7_151_12&term=Digital+Homicide+Studios+llc
There's prob more.
If anyone wants a run down of their "claims" here's my post from the last thread:
Everyone in this thread will be in the next lawsuit.
This is the closest thing I can think of from the previous thread.Inb4 defence force comes out again.
Not sure if serious though...So they made a game and then swapped the assets out to make several games out of it.
Ubisoft does it all the time. What's the problem?
Wonder if they found a contingency lawyer and just found out it was a printing error...They are representing themselves
In.
At this point I have a hard time telling if these guys are trying to run some sort of long con or if they're just (borderline) deranged.
Most of what I've heard about them makes the latter more likely though.
If anyone wants a run down of their "claims" here's my post from the last thread:
Can someone possibly counter-sue if they become the victim of SLAPP?
Valve, you know what to do...
Thanks for doing this. Do you know if the case involving Sterling has had any new developments recently?
I am literally dying right now. My sides are about to explode. They actually listed Steam user names in their documents. Hahaha this makes absolutely zero fucking sense I LOVE IT.
Can someone possibly counter-sue if they become the victim of SLAPP?
They actually lost money when tons of people made 0.01 donations then did PayPal charge backs which generated tons of fees for them.That explains how they can afford it. IIRC they opened a GoFundMe to help fund their case against Jim Sterling. Raised a laughably tiny sum too.
They actually lost money when tons of people made 0.01 donations then did PayPal charge backs which generated tons of fees for them.