What's the thesis here? That the three simply won't provide further cooperation going forward?
They now have all the time they need, if they even did in fact need it, due to a fresh rescheduling of these pitiful conferences.
Mick and his litigator were even willing to gift this extra time, by dropping the ball in their default judgement request form.
The default request against the three was rejected because of inaccurate information provided in the form (box 1a) about when this particular amended cross complaint was filed. Amongst a sea of them back and forth so far.
4/22/20 (when it was filed according to the false form Mick submitted) to 11/29/21 (actual date the judge noted this as filed) is quite a large oversight, and perhaps he simply became confused about which particular amendment to which particular complaint he was trying to get judged based on failure to answer. It would certainly be easy to do at this point. No judgements from me (or the court) on that front.
I also don't see how these matters are somehow the lynchpin of either side's case. If anything, it feels just like another rushed and failed attempt at a "GOTCHA" moment, which is mostly what each side's case seem to revolve around thus far.
Furthermore, there have been plenty of more relevant default judgements actually granted to date. Neither seem to be terribly concerned about how bad such things look.
Before bowing out again, hopefully this time for good, I will say this has seemingly escalated to the point that they are going to be fighting for full blown control of the company when/if a trial date is ever finally set. I hadn't been able to make up my mind on this until recently.
The stakes have been raised higher and higher, each step of the way, from the simple defamation suit it started as. I can't see them not going the full distance at this point, after the sunk cost fallacy+petsonal vendetta has spiraled out of control. This should be beyond what either of them even want to find themselves doing at the finale ...under oath.
Yet they can't help themselves, or each other, and they never could.
