Greer v. Moon
Greer v. Moon, No. 20-cv-00647 (D. Utah Sep. 16, 2020) is a court case that has gone from a shitty little courthouse in Utah all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
I don't have any skin in this game, but I have been watching it play out over the last few months just to see how far it would go.
QRD/Timeline
Yes, this is as barebones as I can make it, or we would be here until next summer.
- Some guy named Russell Greer sues Taylor Swift because she won't play one of his songs.
- Because of the litigation, KiwiFarms takes notice and finds out all sorts of weird shit about the guy.
- He also sues Arianna Grande for some reason.
- A bunch of other weird stuff happens. Sexual harassment, stalking, doxing, etc... You know, the usual.
- KiwiFarms people make a huge thread about Greer. Somebody posts a link to a free .pdf of his book. The link is a Google Drive account and the .pdf is not hosted on KiwiFarms.
- Greer finds out about the megathread and asks the site owner to take down the link to the .pdf.
- The site owner, Joshua Moon, makes fun of him and then posts emails in the megathread. Everybody on KiwiFarms laughs at Greer.
- Greer sends Moon a DMCA.
- The DMCA is ignored. Moon sites "fair use."
- Greer sues Moon but does not hire a lawyer.
- Greer loses the case.
- Greer appeals, but this time he has a lawyer.
- Greer wins the case.
- The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court judgement.
- Moon's lawyers filed a petition for rehearing en banc by the entire Tenth Circuit.
- The Tenth Circuit denied en banc rehearing.
- U.S. Judge Tena Campbell, who had ruled favorably for Moon in the District Court, recused herself without explanation.
- Moon's attorney Matthew Hardin filed four motions in the trial court: Google should be a co-defendant, The complaint should be more coherent, a change of venue to Florida, and a motion to strike irrelevant parts of the complaint.
- Lolcow LLC, the corporate defendant, moved to intervene as a defendant, as Greer had improperly attempted to sue "KiwiFarms."
- A whole bunch of motions and legal statements occur. These actions bring us to February of 2024.
- Moon has petitioned SCOTUS for a writ of certiorari over the appellate decision.
- Somewhere in Utah a clerk, a judge, someone just learned that this shit was appealed to the supremes and is like Oh Fuck.
- March 4, 2024 Moon's Null's appeal is docketed. This means that the appeal is officially in the Supreme Court system. Before now, it wasn't.
And this is where we stand.
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