After Prenda’s Brett Gibbs filed a palmface-inducing motion to disqualify Judge Write with an obvious goal to further delay the inevitable exposure of a fraud , the matter was referred to Judge Michael W Fitzgerald for determination. 

On 1/3/2013 Morgan Pietz filed a request for leave to file an opposition to plaintiff’s motion for disqualification. 

On 1/7/2013 Gibbs replied, further embarrassing himself.  The reply was so amusing that it has prompted the articles on ArsTechnica and TechDirt today.  In what amounts to be a definition of “irony,” Gibbs questioned the existence of Pietz’s client (as if the plaintiff, Ingenuity 13, is not a brazen fake):

Mr. Pietz has demonstrated repeated hostility toward Plaintiff and toward the undersigned, and, as such, would have sufficient motive to interfere with Plaintiff’s cases without the formality of actually having a client involved in the instant litigation.  For the reasons contained herein, the “putative John Doe in 2:12-cv-08333-ODW-JC” could be an invention of Mr. Pietz, and Mr. Pietz should thus be required to submit evidence that he actually represents the individual whom he claims to represent. 

Honestly, I understand why you, Brett, are so nervous.  Given that the Coopergate will not go away, I would constantly be on the verge of a nervous breakdown if I had the same plans for this year as you have.  Yet you cannot delay the inevitable all the way to April.  Let it go: the earlier the better — for everyone, including you.  Leave Prenda, tell the truth both to the public and to the people you care about: do not underestimate the power of remorse.  I do not have a slightest doubt that your masters will betray you when the real heat reaches them.  Protecting these scumbags is beyond ridiculous in these circumstances. 

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