Michael/ Lauren civil trial update February 9

That’s a really interesting post CH.

Do you think MB’s attorneys should make a focused effort to implead RG?

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Just to clarify - you don’t implead a party to add them to your defense. You implead a party as a defendant to your counterclaim. For example, PURELY HYPOTHETICAL, if it comes out in Discovery that RG was responsible for the wiretapping, that is when you implead him into the case.

MB can’t add another defendant to LK’s suit, in other words, but he can implead another defendant to his counterclaim.

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Aaaah. That helps me understand better.

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Right, MB would implead JK or RG for wiretapping but not for shooting/causing LK to be shot.

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What if during subpoenas and depositions, evidence is discovered that JK played an active role in egging on LKs attempts to psychologically terrorize MB? Could MB implead JK with respect to his counterclaims that specifically speak to the negligent/intentional infliction of emotional and psychological stress on MB? In addition to the wiretapping counterclaims? I can’t remember exactly how the emotional distress counterclaims were worded in the filings, but I suspect you will understand what I am trying to ask :slight_smile:

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You know…it kind of begs the question….why wasn’t MHG added to the suit? Seeing as how LK claims that she was the reason for MB’s mental state and the whole “plot” and she arranged for RC to bring the gun….and it’s all been recorded….

Lower standard of evidence in civil trials and all that jazz…

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Good question.

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He can motion the court to implead them, yes.

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Thanks - and thanks for clarifying the correct procedural terminology!

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I can remember my father yelling stand your ground she’s just bluffing…but I do know when one isn’t!

I once grabbed a loose cow in the clinics who ran by us when we were in radiology rounds. I just stood up from my chair and stepped in front of her and grabbed the lead. Granted she was a Jersey not a Holstein bull or anything.

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All I can think about is that lawyer back when the pandemic began who all of a sudden had a cat avatar that he couldn’t make go away and tried to proceed with the hearing.

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I can beat that! When I was listening to a hearing in bankruptcy court the judge had to kick someone off the zoom because they had their camera on and were, by context, less than dressed and not paying any attention to the goings on….

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Was it earlier in this thread or somewhere else that I read about someone who was doing something legal on zoom, and the judge thought the person was conferring with someone else in the room. But the person was actually interacting with their cat, and they had to hold the cat up in front of the camera to prove it.

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Oh oh! I now know (thanks to the show letterkenny) that a Caesar is what our friends in Canada call a Bloody Mary.

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:rofl: :joy:
Thanks for that! I’ve had a bad couple of days and needed a laugh. :kissing_heart:

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That will certainly limit their option of topics.

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This gave me a thought… just a theory (you can call it the movie in my head if you want, because calling it that seems to make it OK to post just about anything).
Maybe that is why Jonathan Kanarek (@Inigo-montoya) and Kirby Kanarek (@Seeker1) are down in Florida. Long distance threats were not working so Daddio on the Patio made a trip down to solve some problem that his daughter, Lauren Kanarek, had, that needed a little more strong arm tactic when her usual threats were not getting the attention she wanted.

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Isn’t the Wellington social scene really spinning up right now? Maybe they’re trying their hand again at infiltrating.

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LK’s Grandpa Bryant was part of the development boom in Ft. Worth. Grandma did some real estate dealings after their divorce too.

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This was exactly my thoughts on this!

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