I am more familiar with California anti-slapp provisions, but agree that is a risk Arnaud should consider as he may be on the hook for legal costs airball or Wesley incur responding. Seems like a desperate attempt to change the narrative.

What a world that private illegal games and cheating turn into a lawsuit. Might as well sue the drug dealers.

Interesting. To the lawyers in the chat, is slander/defamation sch a highly specialized area that it should be left to that niche of lawyers? I would just guessed Mattern simply sought a civil litigator, and Hansen fits that need despite being more experienced in other areas.

It's sort of like a passenger falling unconscious on an airplane. When someone asks if there is a doctor on board, you're not likely to hear "Yes, but I'm an OBGYN specifically... can't help here." No, Dr. Speculum will still jump in to help, as ultimately, every MD or DO has a certain level of general medical expertise. So it stands to reason that defamation might also fall within a litigator's standard tool belt.

Unrelated: I like to think of the volume of mail that attorney receives beginning with "Dear Kevin Hansen..." It makes me smile.

Talk about not being true. I have played poker in casinos for over 25 years and not one single time have I played a table game before or after a poker session. I have occasionally played BJ or something similar with a group of friends that don't play poker just to hang out and have fun with them, but I was not there for poker.

BTW, there is a high probability that your getting cheated in some fashion in your 'livn life' private game.

Well for starters the lawyer isn't even practicing in the state he filed the lawsuit in, and then also the type of law he practices is nowhere close to what op is trying to accomplish. For example, thered be no reason to hire a blackjack dealer for your poker game, when there are plenty of poker dealers available. Especially a bj dealer from another state.

Whats more likely, that this guy would choose to hire something akin to a divorce attorney for his patent dispute, or that op had a copy of a lawsuit that at one time was being litigated by this attorney and he simply went through and changed the details to fit this scenario so he could bluff that he's lawyered up??

Court records are all public, it is possible to find a record with the county clerk but oftentimes someone would need to go in person to check.

Let's see, human beings playing poker for big money in a non regulated home game. And cheating is alleged! Ha Ha. I would equate this to 2+2=4!