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Video is now marked private and unavailable. Is there a link to it somewhere else?
I think most courts in CA have a rule against broadcasting, which includes rebroadcasting, the video court hearings without the Judges permission. Like Sac Rule 1.124. Sac looks like the video is up for the day of the hearing and then removed at the close of business.
Druffs case is over so whatever. IMO Veronica should be a bit more cautious until she gets her judgment
Also Mason and his site are washed up and useless
Postle is a poker pro, I'm sure he'll be able to win that money in a week and you'll be paid by WSOP 2021.
When faced with a difficult decision, ask yourself "What would Micon do?", then do the opposite.
PFA Rookie of the Year Awards
2012: The Templar (unknown)
2013: Jasep $5000+
2015: Micon's gofundme legal defense $3k begging for 100k:
2018: 4Dragons
2019: Dutch Boyd: Mike Postle
2020: Covid19
2021: SMIFlorida and some sort of shit coins for $50k
2022: BDubs leaks chums club info
2023: 22nd Feb 4th Dec Youtube channels removed
2024: Dustin Morgan wins Chrissy's $1000 contest
The weird thing is that I'm the only one in poker to get a judgment against Mike Postle -- and I never even played poker with him, nor have I ever met the guy.
This will likely change next week, when Veronica is highly probable to become the second.
Still, when this whole thing broke 19 months ago, if forced to guess who would win the first court judgment against the guy, I wouldn't have picked myself in the first 1,000 guesses.
As I've stated a ton of times, I never wanted any of this. I didn't even get involved in commenting until several days after it blew up. Even after it became a big story, I never exploited the situation for views or clicks. I only covered the matter when there was something new to talk about. Even when sued myself, I gave matter-of-fact updates on the case as it progressed, and that was it.
Hopefully this situation will at least make others think twice before engaging in frivolous defamation suits against poker personalities, who are simply commenting on current events.
Druff clearly had the best Legal Representation here...
There really is a massive difference unfortunately in Quality of Defense that one can hire, and honestly some people can't afford the highest of quality legal representation. The State Attorney's or Public Defender's Office isn't referred to as the 'Public Pretenders' Office for no reason. They are actually wayyy over worked and have unreasonable case loads, which Private Counsel does not if you can afford that of course. .Druff clearly had the best, got the first settlement well played whoever it was. If it was Bensomoean (sp?)
lol well played well played
I gather that Bart Hanson saved a copy of the relevant portion of the original video and uploaded to youtube:
It really is something to behold. Postle is completely out to lunch. You can see where this is heading the whole time. He has no legal recourse. The judge knows it. Eric Bensamochan knows it. So we sit and watch Postle ramble incoherently for 20 minutes and wait for the judge to basically say, "Nothing you just said matters. You owe Todd this money."
I can't imagine how the Brill hearing will go. Postle looks like a broken man. For the sake of his daughter I hope he doesn't do something drastic.
He really was off. All the repetitive over-explaining about why he didn’t have legal counsel. Like a judge doesn’t immediately know if you had a real case against high wealth individuals like many among those sued, you’d have no shortage of attorneys happy to take their money and your case. That zoom call was like here’s a quick example of wasting the courts time in some law school.
Just watched the vid. Plaintiff is an idiot. The judge is a really good judge. You got a bit lucky there to have your case heard in her courtroom.
Vid is solid gold
Holy fuck Postle is an idiot
That judge was way too nice about this. Postle literally spewed a bunch of meaningless gibberish the entire time and did nothing more than waste everyone's time and make himself look stupid.
There's some pretty poor understanding of defamation law on 2+2, a forum which tends to be full of pseudointellectuals who posture as if they know about a topic, but in reality are completely misinformed.
I'm glad we don't have such stupidity over here. The discussion in this thread has been intelligent, for the most part.
Defamation is far more complicated than people think. In general, you have to consider:
- Whether the defendant was expressing an opinion or a statement of fact
- Whether the plaintiff was a public figure and/or limited purpose public figure
- Whether the defendant suffered actual damages from the alleged defamation
- Whether the statements in question were a matter of public concern
- Whether the defendant's statements were false
- If the defendant's statements were false, did he/she know it at the time they said it?
All of the above goes into the analysis of the quality of a defamation lawsuit. In most cases, these are not winnable, as there's a fairly high standard for what qualifies as actionable defamation. The court doesn't want to be bogged down by a million cases every time someone is butthurt because someone else said something bad about them.
The proper legal advice to Postle here should have been, "This case sucks. Don't file it, especially in California which has strong anti-SLAPP laws." I don't know what advice he actually got, and if he chose to follow it.
Many dummies in the 2+2 thread thought that Postle had a slam dunk defamation case because the lawsuit against him in June was dismissed on a California law technicality.
In my experience, most Courts will go out of their way to accommodate Pro Se parties, and this hearing seemed no different. Your attorney was smart to just sit back and let the Court make his arguments for him, especially on the point made by Postle about you not needing to hire counsel before Service of Process. Enjoy the collection process!
Nothing new but story update about latest ruling is on Poker News Daily here
https://www.pokernewsdaily.com/mike-...yuIjRE2oeKAV60
I like how Drexel pronounces Eric's name like it rhymes with omicron
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