A TheOneRing.net Exclusive!<\/b><\/p>\n
You read it here first, unless your a member of MM3D’s message boards<\/a> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Bridgette Patrovsky<\/i>, CEO of MM3D<\/a>, has posted an update on MM3D’s court case with Sierra<\/a>. Bridgette was kind enough to give TheOneRing.net an exclusive on the story:<\/p>\n In the beginning, we filed in Ca. State court. Sierra<\/i> claimed a jurisdiction issue and had the case ‘removed’ to federal court in May of 2001. (Los Angeles, Ca.) <\/p>\n U.S. District Court I believe these dates are correct but they may be off by a day or two. I’ve taken them from my personal notes. – Bridgette<\/i> <\/p>\n 05-24-01: The case was moved from State to Federal court. <\/p>\n 06-11-01: They filed a motion to dismiss our claims. <\/p>\n 06-18-01: We filed an opposition to their motion to dismiss. <\/p>\n 06-25-01: They filed a response to our opposition filing. <\/p>\n 07-03-01: Motion granted in part, denied in part. We were given leave to amend our complaint to fix it. (Note: We filed in State, not Federal, so we had to change our documents to meet the different Federal requirements.) <\/p>\n 07-30-01: We filed an amended complaint and requested a jury trial. <\/p>\n 08-16-01: They filed a motion to dismiss our amended (fixed) complaint. (The hearing date was set for 10am on 9-17-01) <\/p>\n 08-30-01: We filed an opposition to their motion to dismiss. <\/p>\n 09-10-01: They filed a response to our opposition. <\/p>\n 09-17-01: Their motion to strike certain claims and motion to dismiss were denied by the court.<\/font> (side note: They asked to have 4 claims dismissed out of the 11 we filed. All of our claims remained intact.) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n They file a response to our complaint. After that, the case enters what is known as the discovery phase. <\/p>\n Discovery involves a long process of requesting documents, sending questions, taking depositions and basically, getting ready for trial. <\/p>\n I will be keeping a daily journal and making updates regularly. The updates will be less technical, and more personal. Stuff like: How does it feel to go through this? How is this effecting everyone? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I appreciate your supportive emails and calls. I wish this hadn’t happened but since it did, I am confident that we are doing the right thing. This will be a long process. (as you can see from what it took just to get to the discovery phase) <\/p>\n Obviously, there is a lot I can’t talk about. Things have happened that aren’t mentioned above. Until the jury resolves this, I can’t give more detail. I will keep notes though and once this is over, I’ll write it all up. <\/p>\n Thank you, <\/p>\n Bridgette Patrovsky<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A TheOneRing.net Exclusive! You read it here first, unless your a member of MM3D’s message boards \ud83d\ude09 Bridgette…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-77t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Current Info<\/h5>\n
Central District of California (Western Div.)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 01-CV-4690<\/font>
MM3D Inc v. Sierra On-Line Inc, et al
Filed: 05\/24\/01
Assigned to: Judge Christina A. Snyder<\/i>
Jury demand: Defendant
Nature of Suit: 190 (civil, breach of contract)
Jurisdiction: Diversity <\/p>\nThe Timeline<\/h5>\n
What happens next?<\/h5>\n
On an even more personal note:<\/h5>\n