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Court: “…But is seems to me that your client’s [defendant’s] motion for contempt is an effort to erect a false equivalency.
There is substance to the motion that the other side has raised for contempt against the defendant if it turns out to be true that he has actually continued to make false claims against the company after submitting to and agreeing to and having the court sign and serve an injunction against doing that. And if that’s happened, then that’s a fairly serious matter.
But if it — and it seems to me like the gentleman’s effort to make a claim that the other side has done something equally serious in violation of the rules is, for the most part, manufactured.
So I’m going to deny the Defendant’s Motion for an Order to Show Cause because it doesn’t come anywhere close to the standard that we need.
We regard to the Plaintiff’s Motion for Order to Show Cause, I think the only thing that I can do prospectively is to order that the — that the defendant will be fined $2,500 every time he does it going forward in the future automatically.

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