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====== Peters Sues Former Axanar Director in Georgia Court ====== | ====== Peters Sues Former Axanar Director in Georgia Court ====== | ||
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**//Legal Questions Emerge Over Whether a Georgia Court Has Jurisdiction Over Robert Burnett// ** | **//Legal Questions Emerge Over Whether a Georgia Court Has Jurisdiction Over Robert Burnett// ** | ||
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===== Legal Complaint ===== | ===== Legal Complaint ===== | ||
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- | An early draft of the complaint | + | In the legal complaint |
- | * Repay a series of loans Peters | + | * **Bad loans**: Peters’ complaint includes no copy of his purported loan agreement covering the $31, |
- | * Complete a series of four video featurettes about the making of //Axanar//. | + | * **Bad production**: |
+ | * **Bad equipment**: | ||
+ | * **Bad words**: Peters claims Burnett violating a non-disclosure agreement by releasing material developed for //Axanar, //including the film’s shooting script. | ||
+ | * **Bad document**: A copy of the NDA is included as exhibit A. Lawyers we’ve consulted raise doubts about the enforceability of that document, however. | ||
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+ | * **Bad views**: Among the released material were several behind-the-scenes documentaries Burnett has publicly released. | ||
+ | * **Bad-mouthing**: | ||
+ | * **Bad business**: To sue Burnett, a California resident, in Georgia, Peters claims the defendant has transacted business in Georgia. The complaint includes no documentation of such business. | ||
+ | * **Bad information**: | ||
+ | * **Bad company**: The legal complaint cites Peters as Axanar Productions’ sole shareholder. However, Axanar became a California non-profit public benefit company in 2017; it can have no shareholders. Nor is he the only officer of the corporation; | ||
+ | * **Bad math**: Damages summed up in fifth count of the complaint total $45,534, while damages listed earlier in the document add up to only $45,498. | ||
==== Burnett Responds ==== | ==== Burnett Responds ==== | ||
- | Burnett responded to news of the lawsuit on Twitter, though it didn't appear he had yet been served with legal papers: | + | Burnett responded to news of the lawsuit on Twitter, though it didn’t appear he had yet been served with legal papers: |
- | > Once again, even after two years since the CBS lawsuit settlement, Axanar's Alec Peters does everything he can to **not make** his two fifteen-minute films, spending money to sue me instead of doing the work he owes his donors. Hardly surprising. His last lawyer quit.(([[https:// | + | > Once again, even after two years since the CBS lawsuit settlement, Axanar’s Alec Peters does everything he can to **not make** |
==== Jurisdiction ==== | ==== Jurisdiction ==== | ||
- | Peters filed his suit in Georgia, creating something of a legal quandary since Burnett is a California resident, and all the transactions Peters cited in the draft complaint to justify his damages occurred in California. /* Co-plaintiff Axanar Productions is a registered California company. | + | Peters filed his suit in Georgia, creating something of a legal quandary since Burnett is a California resident, and all the transactions Peters cited in the draft complaint to justify his damages occurred in California; co-plaintiff Axanar Productions is a registered California company. |
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One way or another, however, Burnett would have to contest the suit it in some forum, either making a special appearance in Georgia for the limited purpose of contesting jurisdiction, | One way or another, however, Burnett would have to contest the suit it in some forum, either making a special appearance in Georgia for the limited purpose of contesting jurisdiction, | ||
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The latter course of action does carry some risk, however. If a California court should rule against Burnett on the jurisdiction issue, he wouldn’t be able to fight the case on the merits, since the case would already have been judged in Georgia. | The latter course of action does carry some risk, however. If a California court should rule against Burnett on the jurisdiction issue, he wouldn’t be able to fight the case on the merits, since the case would already have been judged in Georgia. | ||
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By the next day, as he has regularly done on Facebook with comments he doesn’t like, Peters deleted Bawden’s advice. {{: | By the next day, as he has regularly done on Facebook with comments he doesn’t like, Peters deleted Bawden’s advice. {{: | ||
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