Mignogna Case: Game Over. Vic Loses.

That could not have gone more catastrophically for Vic Mignogna had it tried.

One defendant has won her legal fees and penalties back already in all of her cases being dismissed.  In all, only three of the 17 claims were not ruled so ridiculous by the judge that they were thrown out from the bench, with prejudice, this morning in Dallas.

The judge will rule on the remaining claims in 30 days, but it is now widely believed the incompetence of Mignogna's lawyers will make this case go to the penalty phase against Mignogna fairly quickly.

So where are we now:

Vic:

• Is liable for all of the legal bills of Jamie Marchi, plus most (and soon, IMODO, to be all) of the legal bills for Funimation Pictures, Monica Rial, and her fiance Ron Toye.
• Faces additional sanctions, including possible tripling of all of the above.
• He also faces sanctions for ignoring a subpoena to appear at today's hearing according to Dallas newspapers.
• Almost certainly, if something has been on hold for the civil trial, faces criminal charges, if and once anything can be found of his misconduct which falls within statute of limitations (something I find a trivial situation, frankly).
• There has been at least some concern as to Vic's immediate welfare.

They probably have reason to.

Mignogna has done much of whatever his conduct is considered to be under the guise of a Man of Christ.

That degree of massive fraud does not end well when it is finally exposed.  I consider it very likely that the 56 year-old Mignogna is about to be arrested once something is finalized and can safely navigate the courts in the state in which it occurred.  At that point, several parties probably go with him, as Michelle Specht charged back in March that Vic has had significant help and assistance (read: conspiracy/accessory/direct action) by other voice actors close to him...

Would it shock me if Vic, with no other option, ignites the entire situation by doing something tragic?  No.

Funimation Pictures:

• In addition to recouping their legal fees, plus...  Stand vindicated in firing Mignogna in February of 2019.
• Many questions remain however, first and foremost how Mignogna was allowed to remain with the studio to that point, especially with years upon years of similar allegations against him.
• They also have five other problems:

1. They have the little matter of some of the other material which has come out (the #FuniLeaks, the Sabat casting couches from the Huber deposition, etc.).  This probably eventually criminally implicates Funimation head Gen Fukunaga, on top of the questions which remain stated above.
2. They also have the little matter of trying to convince Toei Animation not to remove Funimation's main license, the DragonBall license on which Mignogna performed prominently.
3. They also have the matter of eventually not getting themselves finally criminally examined as an enterprise -- and that could go anywhere from financial questions as to how they can survive now when they used to claim it took DVD's at $25/4-6 episodes to do so 15 years ago to the content of some of their materials being as pedophilic as Mignogna is now viewed to a response to the leaks brought forward by the case, the Specht e-mail, etc.
4. They also have a problem with losing quite a number of their fans.  One of the most damning revelations of the situation was a $240,000 Go Fund Me submitted by Mignogna's fans (which will probably now re-explode, with the current estimate of full penalties against Mignogna first estimated at low-seven figures) in the light of the lawsuit.
5. And the most immediate and violent possible result:

*sigh*  I have to say it, and I don't like saying it.

On July 18th, a crazed fan of....  something....  set fire to Kyoto Animation, burning it's main buildings to the ground and destroying much of the work therein.  It also killed 33 people.

Do I have to assert that one of these Vic Mignogna fans might just go completely off the deep end for a copycat?  Do I really have to go there??

Rial/Marchi/Toye:

• Marchi has won her entire claim with prejudice, Rial and Toye, IMODO, are about to.
• May I suggest (see immediately above) none appear in public any time soon, especially around Vic fans.

Stay tuned.