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      • The comedian instructed his fans to file suits against Patreon, claiming it interfered in their economic relationship with the content creator -- a complaint that, under Patreon's own rules, was to be settled via arbitration, with fees, under California's laws, set to be paid by the service.
      www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/1596377657-court-rules-against-patreon-fan-funding-service-in-key-case-over-cancelled-comedian
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  2. Jul 6, 2020 · Owen Benjamin has managed to get 72 of his fans sued by Patreon. Featured Video. Last October, Patreon banned Benjamin, an alt-right commentator and self-styled comedian, for violating its...

  3. Everyone knows that Owen tried to sue Patreon using his followers as pawns. Vox Day and Mike Cernovich had convinced Owen that a little known California law would allow his followers to sue Patreon individually instead of suing as a class action.

    • Patreon Filed A Mass Action Against The Arbitration Claimants.
    • The Patreon Hearing.
    • Patreon Will Probably Lose, and Should Lose, Its State Court Action.
    • The Implications?

    Patreon lost several procedural motions before arbitrations. After losing these motions, they sued the arbitration claimants in California State Court. Realizing that the arbitration fees would be in the millions of dollars range, Patreon filed a group action against all 72 arbitration claimants. Patreon sought an injunction, that is, they want the...

    The 72 defendants were represented by well-known First Amendment lawyer Marc Randazza. The Court issued a tentative (not final) order denying the injunctions. During the hearing, Patreon’s counsel brought up additional cases that it claimed applied to the lawsuit. The Court suggested that Randazza file a supplemental motion addressing those new cas...

    Patreon’s TOS required parties to use arbitration. Group actions were banned. The parties complied with the TOS, first by putting Patreon on notice as to their claims. Once the parties put Patreon on notice of their claim, Patreon was barred by well-established law from amending the TOS in a way that would foreclose those claims.

    If a popular creator were banned from PayPal, could he or she have her backers move for arbitration as well? That’s a specific question that many lawyers are looking at now. Patreon, like Door Dash before it, banned class actions before decision that group actions are in fact an inefficient way of resolving cases. Here is what a federal judge told ...

  4. Aug 3, 2020 · His fans answered and followed suit, 72 of them in fact, filed claims against Patreon citing the same reasons Benjamin claimed that by banning a Creator it disrupts the economic relationship between Creator and Backer. A legal term called "tortious interference with a business relationship."

    • Matt Kleinschmidt
  5. Owen got around 100 of his cult members to file false, meritless and downright laughable claims when they rightfully removed beg bear from Patreon. The TOS directly gave patreon the right to do this , so all the claims were laughable .

  6. Sam covers the aftermath of Owen Benjamin's legal battles with Patreon, and also reviews Owen's latest viral meltdown.--- Send in a voice message: https://po...

  7. r/owenbenjamin. • 3 yr. ago. an_awful_lot_of_lies. THE PATREON VS OWEN BENJAMIN LAWSUIT HAS JUST BEEN DESIGNATED A COMPLEX LITIGATION. LEGAL FEES FOR OWEN AND THE BEARS WILL NOW LIKELY RUN INTO MILLIONS.

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