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Do the defendants have the right and the opportunity to sue for legal fees and damages for having to fight this vexatious court case?


We were awarded our legal fees. However, these the legal fees are only a part of the total cost, which includes lost income from the time expended, disruption of our personal lives, alienation from our passions and professions, damage to our reputations from false claims spread by Wright in furtherance of his fraud, etc. At least one of Wright's targets were hospitalized over stress induced cardiac problems due to the litigation.

We can bring separate fraud charges for some of these damages, though they're not likely to be entirely recoverable. However, Wright appears to be a lifelong grifter with little to no personal means to pay any judgement and attaching his sponsors for this litigation would be an extra level of difficulty. Even ignoring the potential of non-recovery, doing so would mean years of additional mud wrestling with this pig ("and the pig likes it!"), and a further impact on our lives which we'd just like to continue. We might be forced to however, because he and his conspirators seem to be showing little sign of stopping and going on the offensive might be necessary because simply losing and paying costs may not be enough to stop them.




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