The Pokimane x Ninja lawsuit controversy continues to take the internet by storm, and Jake Lucky recently sat down with a lawyer, AttorneyTom, about who may have the upper hand in this ongoing feud. Tom is a Catastrophic Personal Injury Attorney and trial lawyer, and he had some interesting things to say about the situation.
The original social media response was overwhelmingly against both Ninja and his wife, but what does the lawyer have to say on the matter?
The discussion was whether Ninja and his wife, Jessica Blevins, had any chance of winning a lawsuit against Pokimane, should things come to that. The very first thing that AttorneyTom had to say was what specifically the husband and wife team would have to do:
Tom then explained what “actual malice” is, that the streamer would have known the statements made were false but did so anyway. Since all they had to go on was Ninja’s statement live on stream that he was going to text a Twitch rep to help JiDion, it does not sound like actual malice took place.
Tom added:
That was the end of the discussion in that video. In a separate video by AttorneyTom, he breaks down the situation and sets the stage for his own analysis.
Tom showed the DM Jessica Blevins sent, threatening legal action, and then explained what caused the situation in the first place - that being the hate raid sent by JiDion, and Ninja saying on camera that he’d text his Twitch rep to help.
Tom says in the video:
After showing footage of the incident, Tom gets to the core of the accusation - that Ninja, at least on his stream, openly agreed to support JiDion:
AttorneyTom then shows a clip of Ninja’s DM and reads it out loud, before making his last statement on the situation:
It doesn’t sound like pursuing
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