Ryan Kopf’s Second Lawsuit Against Us Has Been Finally Dismissed
Since 2016 Nerd & Tie, former Nerd & Tie contributor Pher Sturz, and I have been defending a defamation lawsuit brought against us by AnimeCon.org convention owner Ryan Kopf in the state of Illinois. It’s been a long road, and a lot has happened — but we’re happy to say that the Illinois lawsuit (like his Iowa lawsuit before it) has been dismissed.
This time around, it was dismissed for failure to prosecute.
We want to thank everyone who stood by us these six years, and helped raise our voice in the convention community. A lot has changed in the half dozen years of this lawsuit, but we hope to continue our commitment to the con scene at large. We stand by the articles we published that were named in the suit, and twice now we’ve stood up for ourselves and won.
I want to personally thank everyone who contributed and shared our GoFundMe campaign, as well as those who directly pitched in. You’ve helped us tremendously, and we honestly couldn’t have done this without you.
Now that’s enough looking backwards — it’s time to see what’s next.
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That sucks that you had to go through all that, but I’m glad it’s behind you.
Between the reason for dismissal and some of the other things that I’ve seen here and there, I think I can kinda infer how things went, and I hope there were some consequences for Mr. Kopf.