Conflict of Interest Disclosure: M-SPAN is a member of the class-action lawsuit reported in this article. To ensure neutrality, the article was reviewed and edited by a 3rd party.

Recently on October 10th, 6:58PM, the Mayflower District Court ordered Secretary of State Fiblywibly to pay $1,000,000 UCD in judgements after a recent class action lawsuit. After such judgement, he is now taking retaliatory actions against the plaintiffs involved.

The lawsuit, which was headed by the law firm Bennet, Ellis & Matlock, LLC, represented the class of business owners who would of been impacted by recent levies imposed by the Department of State (DOS). Said levies ranged from 1-4% of net profit. Original communications from Fiblywibly indicated that businesses would have to pay these levies on the 16th, with failure to do so resulting in license revocations and suspensions. Alongside this, DOS mandated financial reporting to aid with levy enforcement. The plaintiffs argued that with no foundation of any treasury, Secretary of State Fiblywibly was essentially asking for bribes from business owners in exchange for them keeping their operating licenses.

At pretrial, the plaintiffs, represented by the now-former Attorney General SadoImpacto, were able to get a temporary restraining order preventing the collection of any levies. The DOS then argued that, contrary to prior communication, they had no intentions on collecting nor enforcing anything until the statutory framework was set up.

Sadoimpacto shortly after this, for unrelated reasons, would cut all ties and communications with the Mayflower community. The abrupt departure resulted in the Justice Department in a state of comatose whilst it was internally restructuring itself. As such, the State was unable to file a responsive pleading; this resulted in default judgement being ordered, finding Fiblywibly liable most of all torts alleged.

9 hours after the judgement was posted, the plaintiffs raised concerns over retaliation from the Secretary of State with his official powers. It’s alleged, as shown through screenshots, that Fiblywibly planning on not paying the judgement as well as revoking the business license of Bennet, Ellis & Matlock, LLC. Fiblywibly contended in the case channel that “[he does] intend to pay the settlement next time [he is in game].”

In regards to retaliation, M-SPAN was able to substantiate these claims. Among the class actions, six additional businesses faced revocation due to “failing to renew their business licenses”. For these businesses, the issued and expiration dates appeared abnormal.

M-SPAN got in touch with Assistant Secretary of State Lorens20181, who told us that the expiration date of businesses is set 3 months after on the same or an equivalent date. “If your license is issued on, say, May 5th,” she’d explain, “then it expires on August 5th.” However, inspection of the impacted businesses showed that they did not follow this consistent pattern, instead having their expiration dates set 1–3 days before the date of the judgment without regard to the date of issuance.

Alongside this, the Department of State automatically has a bot where staff can request Business information at the time, which contains the date of issuance and date of expiration. Comparison of the dates from there and the current Trello indicate that someone intentionally modified the dates on the Trello without notice.

The litigation is still on-going and volatile. M-SPAN will publish an update on the case in the following days.