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+ | ====== Hero Prop Makes Tactical Legal Move Against Alec Peters ====== | ||
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+ | **//Prop company owner buys unpaid legal judgment in Peters' | ||
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+ | **A defamation lawsuit** long-forgotten by [[Axanar]] producer [[Alec Peters]] is coming back to haunt him in a new move by his legal opponent in the [[: | ||
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+ | ===== Unpaid Legal Judgment ===== | ||
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+ | The plaintiff in the Nevada [[hero_prop_suit|Hero Prop suit]], Tiana Armstrong, is going after at least $13,000 in damages Peters owes but has never paid to a blogger who criticized his business practices. That's on top of the damages she seeks in Nevada suit. | ||
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+ | ==== Jason DeBord ==== | ||
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+ | Peters sued blogger Jason DeBord in 2010, claiming DeBord’s [[http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Case Thrown Out ==== | ||
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+ | That case was [[: | ||
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+ | Peters never paid the $26,000 in attorney’s fees and court costs to DeBord and the blog (both co-defendants). DeBord was personally owed $13,000. | ||
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+ | ===== Pursuing Payment ===== | ||
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+ | According to court documents filed in Nevada, Armstrong purchased DeBord’s personal judgment, making him whole eight years since Peters’ lawsuit was struck. | ||
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+ | The court documents also show that Armstrong is seeking to get a Georgia court to allow her to pursue the DeBord judgment directly from Peters. | ||
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+ | ===== Why it Matters ===== | ||
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+ | Contacted by AxaMonitor, Armstrong would not comment on why she purchased DeBord’s judgment. But a few possibilities emerged: | ||
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+ | * **Swaying the judge**: Hero Prop’s suit will be decided by a judge, Armstrong having waived a jury trial. | ||
+ | * **Who owes whom**: The judgment allows Armstrong to demonstrate going into trial that Peters owes her thousands of dollars. | ||
+ | * **Forcing payment**: Once the California judgment is allowed to be pursued against Peters in Georgia, he’ll either have to pay it to resolve the long-ignored damages or let Armstrong use his non-payment at trial, and possibly to spotlight the [[: | ||
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