Recent content by Elwes

I hadn't seen the tweet, but I'll take it on face value. "Deal" doesn't have to mean money. Although, I was assuming that the "deal" was going to be something along the lines of "Jim doesn't want to be vindictive... If you drop the case, he'll refund your patreon donations so you can say a...

Looks like Jim's lawyers are talking to James Romine directly and trying to work out a deal. They asked for the time to conclude those negotiations (and probably review the new paperwork). So the judge seems to basically going "sure, if a little extra time means all this goes away without any...

I don't know for sure, but I would say that it meets the February 10th deadline. The judge asked for an updated complaint (and/or a lawyer) and got one. Job done. Now things continue as normal, based on the updated complaint. In one sense, James Romine has met the courts directive to...

To be honest, the next thing I'm expecting a repeat of previous instances where James Romine files something, then it's knocked back by the court clerks for being too long - then he has to ask for permission to submit it again, then does that wrong, then eventually files the paperwork he wanted...

So am I missing something? James Romine still seems to have completely missed the Judge's point that there is a legal separation between himself and his company(s). The company(s) sells games. He works for the company. The judge gave this example... "he [James Romine] may not seek...

Probably, but not automatically. In effect the judge has said that James Romine has screwed up his complaint, but he may still have a valid complaint... so go away and rewrite it - or don't. The note about needing a lawyer to represent an entity just means that if the complaint still makes...

The original court documents are uploaded to PacerMonitor usually within 24 hours. https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/19146067/Romine_v_Unknown_Party_et_al - but accessing it is a paid service. There are other sites (plainsite.org and the unitedstatescourts.org), but their service is...

The latest denied motion... On the 12th of September, James Romine filed his case, including a request for a subpeona to Valve for contact details of various Steam users. On the 27th of September, the court told James Romine he hadn't followed one of the local court rules and needed to...

Nope. He ran out of money and requested the case be dismissed. It was dismissed. Case closed (for the time being). So technically, he didn't lose - because the case never happened. Well, he did lose $400. Does that count? Would he have lost if the case had continued?... It doesn't matter...

Keep in mind that since he filed this suit Value threw him off Steam. Ignoring the reasons why, that's still going to have a knock on effect on his finances. He was probably still selling games until recently. There's one income lost. There's also a discussion going on that he was...

-vs- Jim. As KoalaMan412 has said, this just looks like he spotted yet another technical problem with the paperwork he already submitted and is seeking to correct it. No harm, no foul. I doubt it will do anything substantial, since a ruling about dismissing the case is still outstanding. It...

It's nothing anyone but the courts will care about. If I'm reading it right, James Romine's request for a subpoena should be assigned to a magistrate judge. But assigning a judge somehow needs his written consent (or a written alternative) via some extra paperwork to be filed with the court...

Aye. But I won the internet. I mean. Have you SEEN the internet? The internet makes Mos Eisley spaceport look like Shangri-La. *shudder*

Bahh, I'm too old for memes. Is that good or bad? In fairness, if you hadn't quoted it - I'd have probably edited it to say "about a quarter of [well, somewhere else]". Because I checked the maps and the majority of countries I was thinking of aren't actually in South East Asia and those same...

Very few articles, news or otherwise, are wholly accurate or provide a view of the bigger picture. The article is from a local news outlet covering a local company and local resident who've featured in a news story that has made it onto the world wide stage. Valve don't talk to anyone and...