Trial Update #6

Our appeal went well. The court heard new evidence supporting John Szczepaniak's residency in France and it spent considerable time weighing our libel case. We won't know until October 29th whether the court wishes to reverse the previous ruling of jurisdictional incompetence, but if it does, it will also issue a verdict on the libel. We have waited a long time for that verdict. Keep your fingers crossed.

New Trial Date

Our hearing in Poitiers is scheduled for September 24th. We don't expect another adjournment, but let's just say we've learned to be patient with the French judicial system over the last year and a half. We will update everyone when appropriate.

On a more interesting note, last week we were alerted to two new developments:

1. Basic details of our case against John Szczepaniak were added to the "Controversies" section of the Wikipedia entry for Kickstarter.
2. Kickstarter deleted several of the more egregious passages from John’s updates of November 2013, March 2014, and May 2014.

It’s hard to say whether these events are linked. The deleted lines represent only a fraction of the defamatory claims made by John, but they certainly fall under the category of “personal attacks”. Perhaps the appearance of our case on Wikipedia has finally motivated Kickstarter to enforce their policy against such attacks.

We will provide a rundown of all of Kickstarter's edits to John’s posts in a future update.