I’ve been slacking on our favorite Texas Western District Court case. Perez had contacted me at some point saying I should look into the case. I wish I’d done it sooner.
Unfortunately, I am trying to keep my billable pages under 30 with PACER so that I don’t have to pay any money. So I’m going to include the docket report and a few select documents below.
There’s been a lot of back and forth, looks like a dismissal with prejudice at some point. A scheduling order was also filed. Lots of motions and replies.
Of course, my interest is with regard to the Speech-to-Text Institute. The organization was ordered to appear through a licensed attorney. It failed to do so. Subsequently, an order to show cause was issued. So STTI may have defaulted. I suspect this is because it has no value and therefore nothing to lose. But it will be really interesting if they ever get to the part where STTI’s materials were being used around the country to mislead decision makers and break non-digital businesses in favor of what I’ve termed the STTI Bloc, a group of relatively powerful corporations in our field that had representatives on the STTI board, including names like U.S. Legal Support, Veritext, and Stenograph. Notably, Veritext has allowed me to associate its name with fraud for the last several years despite being directly informed of what I was doing and its propensity toward harassing reporters for what they post on Facebook.
Anyway, the docket report is here.
The order that ordered the Speech-to-Text Institute to appear is here:
The order to show cause with regard to STTI’s failure to appear? That’s here:
The scheduling order? Right here.
They have to complete discovery on or before February 28, 2025. Good luck, folks!
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Addendum:
Footage of Trey Perez being kicked out of a deposition was later brought to my attention. We continue to follow the court process for updates about the group boycott of his business.
You didn’t mention the reporter that held up a deposition in Temple,Texas until another videographer could be found because she refused to work with me. By the way you didn’t slay anyone, I did. STTI shut down after I filed suit. Not anything you wrote or did. Here’s a tidbit for you reporters who think y’all got a win when the judge ruled all depositions in the state of Texas must be taken by a certified stenographer. Ask Thomas J. Henry if his law firm believes the judges ruling to be correct, because they are taking hundreds of depositions without a court reporter every single week. So if the judge is correct every deposition where I swore in the witness, kept track of exhibits without a reporter for DepoCall would be inadmissible. Also the video only depositions I did for all the cr firm defendants in my lawsuit would be inadmissible. Unless for some reason that rule only applies to me.
I don’t know why you hate me so much. I feel like I’m usually pretty nice to you. Sorry for the times I wasn’t.
How would you have known to file suit against STTI if I didn’t make it public knowledge that they were defrauding everybody? And look, the cowards would rather default than face what they’ve done in court.
When you told me reporters were doing illegal things to you I told you all about the litigation funding firm Lex Ferenda and how you should take a stand. I don’t know how much more clear I can make it that I feel, I genuinely feel, that if the law was broken, you should win.
I know the court process is long, expensive, and scary, so if you ever want to vent off the record, I’m pretty sure you have my number.
Take it easy. Thanks for commenting here.