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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 05 2020, @11:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-on-like-Donkey-Kong dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

In April of 2018, the Twin Galaxies video game scoreboard announced its finding that well-known classic game score-chaser Billy Mitchell did not achieve his Donkey Kong high scores on unmodified arcade hardware, stripping him of all his accumulated records in the process. Since then, Mitchell has oft claimed that he would fight the decision every way he could. And in September 2019, Mitchell and his lawyers said in a statement they would be forced to "resort to legal recourse" if Twin Galaxies didn't rescind its decision and reinstate Mitchell's scores.

But court filings obtained by Ars Technica show that Mitchell had already filed suit against Twin Galaxies in a Los Angeles County court as early as April 2019.

Mitchell's defamation lawsuit—misfiled as "William James Mitchell vs. Twin Galexies, LLC [sic]" and not reported in previous press accounts—has been slowly building to a planned July anti-SLAPP hearing, where Twin Galaxies will make use of a statute that lets defendants quickly strike down lawsuits that threaten "public participation." Twin Galaxies says in court filings that its statements regarding Mitchell's scores were not defamatory and that finding in Mitchell's favor "would have chilling effects on the freedom of speech."

"My law firm and I are fully confident that we will establish a prima face [sic] case for all parts of the lawsuit," Mitchell told Ars Technica in a Twitter Direct Message.


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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday May 05 2020, @06:31PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 05 2020, @06:31PM (#990807) Journal

    Summary judgements are when both sides agree on enough relevant facts for there to be no need of finding of fact. I.e. the judge can fairly make a decision based on the summaries of the case provided by both sides.

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