Thread by @AkivaMCohen

Oh my dear sweet lord. Why? How?

How are actual lawyers still signing and filing pieces of garbage like this?

https://twitter.com/get_innocuous/status/1427732848165867520

Terpsehore Maras is suing Dominion for defamation, because they said [IN A PLEADING] that the Arizona court called her affidavit for Sidney Powell "unreliable" ... when the court just said that Powell's experts were generally derived from unreliable sources.

There's just so much wrong here. But look, litigation privilege exists. That means you literally can't sue someone for defamation over things they say in a document filed with a court in a litigation.

And that's literally all she's suing over

Also, she has somehow filed this case in Tennessee.

Though she lives in Ohio and the Defendants are all based in Colorado.

Her theory of personal jurisdiction is "Dominion is generally subject to suit in Tennessee, a state in which they do not reside and are not incorporated, because they do business there regularly" and, sweetie, the US Supreme Court has said that's not a thing anymore.

But really, forget jurisdiction. What the hell is her theory of *venue*?

Jurisdiction is "can the defendant be brought into this court?"

Venue is "even if they can, is this really the right court for this dispute?"

What possible connection can M.D.Tenn. have to a defamation suit between an Ohioan and Coloradoans, over alleged defamation in DC pleadings, based on a judge's findings in an Arizona lawsuit?

In the words of the great legal scholar Samuel Johnson, why are we HERE?

Oh, honey, no.

Is "the property that's the subject of the action" located in the Middle District of Tennessee? No. It's a defamation claim. There's no such property.

Did a substantial part of the events or omissions giving rise to the defamation claim happen in Tennessee? No. Of course not.

You're claiming they defamed you in a pleading filed in Washington D.C. (which isn't Tennessee) based on some stuff that happened in Arizona (also, for those following along, not Tennessee), based on an aff you presumably wrote in Ohio (which, I guess, might be Tennessee? OK, no)

Seriously, this is a meth addicts version of the Kraken lawsuits; it's not even tangentially adjacent to anything approaching a potentially valid claim, and this gentleman should have his bleeding suit and wallet at the ready