bluehorseshoe

So where do things stand as far as folks starting a civil action against CGC for this stuff?

This book is back up for auction, I don’t know what to make of that, but generally, it’s not for a good reason.

The famed executive copy. Well done man, what a beautiful book. All collections pale in comparison to yours.

I have one that I think has a shot, but its going to have to be examined by someone who is in the business of knowing what to fix in terms of what I don't know with the cardstock covers. I am going to submit it either way, but I love and I am amazed at the chase at the same time.

I saw one for sale at the Baltimore CC two years ago, which happened to be the last time JML attended...and the dealer wanted 5 dimes for it, and got him down to 4500 and that was it. Too much, I couldnt justify that even with being able to walk it over to JLM for him to put a eye tear on it and then walk it over to CGC and get a green/yellow label for it.

The chase for high grade copies of this book is just incredible. I did not even think this was a 9.6, though with a press on the bottom front staple area it might be. But regardless, wow.

It went to auction the last round with Comiclink. It went for 575, but I had much more than that loaded up into it bid-wise. Like I said, I have not seen one on Comiclink since 2010.

1 of 7 (1 is a SS book). I had not seen one for sale ever since I started buying on Comiclink in 2010. Just need to second print to round it out, but that will be a breeze compared to this one. I would have paid 3 times what I ended up winning it for.

This x 1000000. Its incredible that so many boardies actually have an option that CGC needs to do better. If all that comes from any of this is a thread that says exactly that, then the CGC accountants are not losing a single wink of sleep, because all of that and fifty cents will get you a cup of coffee. You people vote with your dollars. Beg and plead and demand and shout your opinion to the rafters all you want; but at the end of the day, if you want things to change, then do something else, instead of exactly what you did before this stuff and after this stuff (and before and after all of the other instances of goofball antics). Or don't and keep writing your diatribes on here.

I think part of that requirement has to do with how CGC indicated on the Civil Action Info Sheet in terms of service. If they don't know how to serve the Defendants, then publication is the default. Or you can choose not to serve the Defendants, but if you have a Motion for TRO and are requesting injunctive relief, then you have to be able to walk into that hearing and demonstrate service or notice or both. The other interesting thing is if you have to post a bond for the "value" of the books you want seized under and by the executive ability of the Courts (Marshalls I would guess) then is the "value" of the bond the sum of the listed values by the poor schmucks that sent in these books and were stolen, or is the "value" FMV-because those numbers could be wildly different. The answer to that must be contemplated very carefully by CGC law firm, because absolutely everything that happens in this case is going to be scrutinized and relied upon in one form or another in the next action and the action after that. If I was law firm I would have asked that bond information be subject to a protective order.

You could be and are wrong.

To me, if what I proposed above is just a bunch of krap , then the lawyers might have got a call from the insurance carrier, who is probably paying for all this lawyering anyway, and they said, if you don’t plead A, B, and C, then the coverage doesn’t kick in. CGC tells them to go pound sand, and then you have an insurance company hiring a bunch of other expensive lawyers, filing a dec (declaratory for the readers) action against CGC, arguing that there is no insurance coverage for prosecuting a claim for the relief requested in the first place. And the interesting thing about filing a declaratory action against CGC, you would have your absolute choice of venue, which would basically be in whatever state and district thee insurance company does business in, so forum/judge shopping is absolutely on the menu at that point.

I am right in line behind both of you to get the look at the stuff that comes from a discovery phase of a proceeding like this. Hell, the deposition transcripts would be so good I’d send them in to be graded and pray for white pages PQ wise. And right behind us would be a lot of other lawyers that have been looking for information FOR YEARS THAT IS needed for a good class-level test case against CGC. Interrogatories, responses, deposition transcripts, it’s hard to imagine all of that stuff not being filed with either a blanket protection order or à la cart. The gravy would be in the trial exhibits, because those would be available on PACER, but this isn’t a trial case; this is a default judgment case. Again, against a couple of defendants, that will make no appearances in the case ever, and to them, a judgment is just another piece of paper you get in the mail.

To me, there is something really weird about what has happened over the course of two days. Consider this: CGC is paying 3 lawyers a minimum of 800 bucks an hour and a partner that is in charge of those lawyers 1200 bucks an hour, to put together this complaint and file. The record entry stamp isnt even dry before one of the judge’s law clerks glances at the complaint and recognizes it is insufficiently pled. Less than 24 hours later, the case is dismissed, albeit without prejudice, and the motion for preliminary injunctive relief is dismissed as well. But back up to 1/31, and the narrative is: We (CGC) investigated a couple bad guys for almost 2 years. We filed a lawsuit against them, but it’s doubtful the defendants will even be able to be served with that lawsuit, because who the hell knows where they are. The PR department releases a statement stating we are going after said bad guys and doing the right thing. Your average CGC customer is satisfied, or your average CGC customer doesn’t have a clue any of this is happening anyway. What in the world would be the incentive to re-file this lawsuit? If you re-file it, you are going to collect exactly what you were going to collect the first time you filed against the defendants, which is nothing, because they are judgment-proof. You have no shareholders to answer to if you don’t refile the lawsuit. The PR stuff is still out there that you are fighting the good fight and pursuing legal action. And as such: What if the complaint was filed with a “poison pill” added into it (in the form of insufficient pleading) to ensure exactly what happened, which was a dismissal of the complaint and the motion for injunctive relief? I mean are you paying all those lawyers all that money to prosecute this case, only to have the whole thing kicked 24 hours after filing because said lawyers weren’t smart enough to file a sufficiently pled complaint? And even though you have no lawsuit going because it got kicked, is that the worst thing if you can still live off the PR from filing it in the first place? Again, what in the world would be your incentive to refile this lawsuit? It’s just weird.

Well tough guy, if you did have any sort of legal background, you would have already looked up this case on PACER. And then you would have looked at who is listed as counsel of record for CGC (Defendants of course have no counsel, duh) And then you would’ve googled those 3 to see if they are smoking hot chicks. And then you would have been disappointed because all three of them are…well they are not exactly the coldest beers in the fridge. Not even the coldest beers in the fridge in their litigation practice group for that matter. Which is weird because this firm is a front-line entertainment industry intellectual property firm (undoubtedly a 4zero outfit), and they tend to employ…you guessed it…smoking hot chicks, that happen to be smart as hell. So don’t you try to tell me I don’t know how to do this. I know how to legal research the important stuff.