Okay let me give you a detailed update
Now as you know multiple things are going on with the HTWF lawsuit. First of all HTWF is asking for "motion for relief from judgement" and then there was the "Extension of time to file notice of appeal". MJ Estate is on the other hand is still trying to get the control of trademarks. And as you all know there was a hearing on October 24.
Still most of the documents are being filed under the seal although a few is public record. There was an interesting declaration by Melissa Johnson. First let's establish that it wasn't sealed.
This declaration had a series of emails between Melissa Johnson and her former lawyer Edgar Pease- which turned out to be highly interesting.
On these emails we see that Melissa Johnson accused Pease of sending a list of her domains including her personal domains to MJ Estate and she says that's the reason that he was fired. Pease tells her that the list of the domains had already been given to the court during discovery phase. Pease is adamant that he did not send any documents that wasn't already public record and/ or filed with the court.
We also learn a little more about the settlement. Like I predicted (if you remember it), it turns out that Melissa was given monetary compensation for settlement.
As you can see MJ Estate had offered to pay all the expenses Melissa had per settlement.
In another document filed by HTWF we learn that Estate didn't pay the expenses because they believed the numbers they were submitted was inflated.
From Edgar Pease's email we also learn that the TMZ story of Melissa getting a chair in the board of directors of HTWF was true but it didn't go as planned for Melissa either.
Pease also writes in his email the following "I will never work for on your behalf again nor will I ever work on behalf of any entities to which you or Mel are involved or related".
I personally do not think Pease and Melissa's relationship got any better because while asking for rejection of the court judgement / file an appeal Melissa is blaming Pease (her claims are sealed). All we can see is below:
There is substantial evidence, both prior to and subsequent to the Court’s ruling, that Defendants’ then-attorney had abdicated his duties to his client, and was actively attempting to undermine Defendants’ case.
After these both HTWF and MJ Estate had filed other documents. It turns out that the Judge decided to revise her judgement and asked feedback from both sides.
HTWF argued that Melissa Johnson's personal property should be left out of the judgement. Interestingly they say the trademarks she registered on her own name is her personal property. Example of these trademarks are MJ, Make the change and HTWF.
As you can guess MJ Estate is arguing that those are not her "personal" property but the stuff she trademarked for HTWF and therefore should be transferred to them.
Now if you ask me what the judge decided about the extension of time to file an appeal and what did the judge decide about the "personal" property. I don't know. The documents are sealed.
but we have a HTWF supporter ,that you all know, who appears to have knowledge and tweet about confidential information.
And I know you'll ask me what will happen with the appeal. My personal opinion is that the changes of HTWF winning this appeal is slim. As far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong) when there's a judge's decision (not a jury trial) appeal only involves the examination of if the judge followed the law, procedures etc.