In Infictive - XIV
A review of monitored events and research notes for the first week of August 2012.
Today is Monday, August 6, 2012, and by George, it has been a superbly litigious week, hasn't it?
- The Race to 100 continues at a strong pace with Mystery X having released three new albums over the past week: "Two Headed Bird Nurturing Itself", "Eclipse Bird", and "High Five the Hand that Holds you Down". This makes the official ICR tally 91 albums (since Foundation) to date, with just under five months remaining in the year.</a>
- The popular "Old Sequoia Keter'd" series of adventure stories for all-ages looks set to continue with the pending release of a new collection of shorts, "The Long Way Down to Market and Other Stories". The series, detailing the exploits of Zebulun Hare, Dr. James Cottontail, Sir Tich Tan, and Dr. Blackbird, among others, has been hailed as "splendid" and other flattering words of praise.
- In celebrity legal news, Lonnie Lentine and co.'s class action suit against the Quick Nods, their management, and the organizers of the event that led to the 28% Concert Riot has opened in the Golden State, and is expected to last at least two weeks. The case has disrupted the filming of the ESM production "Magafungo", and the set is being temporarily shut down while the band attend trial and work with their lawyers to fight the case in the California courts.
- On the wiki front, a shock arbitration suit, "Brenicorp" v. User:Juanochoa, was brought by Infictive IO members LouisWu471 and B against relative new-comer Juanochoa in response to a posting simply titled "Toxic Dumping in Simpso". According to sources familiar with the arbitration, the case is important not for the content of the post itself, but rather the penalization of what the plantiffs have characterized as "crude trolling", and a decision on the entire structure of the authorial scoring system. In a statement, the plantiffs lamented that "this case may take weeks, even months, to properly and fully prosecute."
- And the biggest news in the county this week: High-level members of Mara23 were convicted in federal court on Friday of a laundry list of charges, including drug trafficking, arson, and murder, part of a larger crackdown on the organization that has seen distributors, manufacturers, and even some Human-Onlyists tangled up into legal knots. This goes a long way to explaining the sudden dry spell in the market for BluJay, huh?
- In what is being called retaliation for comments made in light of the M23 convictions, a "roach grenade" was tossed into the mayor's offices in Libreville, requiring evacuation and emergency fumigation. There were no reports of injury, and as yet no suspects have been arrested in connection. The mayor, Diomedes Argyris, has been fighting one of the most difficult campaigns of his long mayoral career, and it is unclear how this court victory and subsequent attack will affect his polling numbers.
That concludes this week In Infictive. Keep an eye out for any rogue bread trucks! They may be assassins in disguise!