The Litigation, The lawsuit Options

[Sunderer]

I haven't posted here in a long time (if ever).

At the risk of duplicating a topic, you can access the litigation between the other members and Ed. (We lawyers find these things).

I do not believe I am allowed to link to the direct site, but the lawsuit is filed in the State Supreme Court in New York. Your GoogleFoo skillz should get you there!

Their records are free so long as you agree to the terms. You can view the various pleadings.

Then you can say you are PRIVY to something !

[Sunderer]

Sorry about duplication.

The complaint was two-fold: (1) failure to pay $300,000 (he apparently paid $75,000 on an advance); and (2) the bootleg.

There is absolutely nothing since August of last year. Now discovery in civil cases is conducted outside the purview of the court (unless a discovery dispute arises). So you might not hear about discovery.

BUT, a year is a LONG time without hearing anything. No trial settings requested, no hearings requested, nothing.

Perhaps New York dockets are ten times worse than where I practice (Texas), but a year with nothing reported on the docket is CRAZY.

I previously offered (probably on FB) to mediate this dispute. This mediation would occur in Vegas. I would NOT charge for travel or hotel, as I can get those - just my time during the mediation. And since I'm a specialized divorce attorney, this dispute is right up my alley. Just another breakup. Unfortunately, the "parents" left millions of heart-broken "kids" in this case.

And to digress on to other topics ... I don't care if you make Jesus Christ the lead singer of your new re-tooled band, it WON'T WORK 9 times out of 10. Ask Fuel (Brett had that cool voice). Ask Creed (and they lost their mo). Heck, even Journey stinks after all these years. [Van Halen is the one and only exception].

LIVE needs to start over. They need to write a new agreement. If Ed is doing 99% of the writing as he claims, then re-tool the '05 Agreement. Write an agreement where Ed can work on solo projects as well (it seemed to work for Sting and the Police).

But I turn 50 in March, and I'm planning on spending my birthday making extremely poor choices in Vegas. As least SOME good could come out of my trip.

[Bremang]

BUT, a year is a LONG time without hearing anything...

....a year with nothing reported on the docket is CRAZY.

It seems incredibly suspicious. Is it reasonable to imagine that CCP's claims were made in bad faith?

Many people here have read the docket. Would you say that someone could find more information by actually visiting the court records building? I am curious as to what the Stipulation is about.

As far as what you said about "privy", I was saying that based on what the docket provides, we have no way to determine whether Ed was in breach of any contract.

CCP are also saying Ed owes them money from entering into a contract that gave him a million dollar signing bonus, not just royalties from the website. I wonder if anyone actually bought that crappy live audio from his website.

This post has been edited by Bremang: Oct 3 2011, 1:27 pm

[mfitz804]

It seems incredibly suspicious. Is it reasonable to imagine that CCP's claims were made in bad faith?

If the claims were truly in bad faith, one would think that Ed and his people would have made a motion to dismiss rather than just allowing the matter to linger on the Court's docket, unpursued.