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.