Blog Updates – Breaking Code Silence Frivolous Lawsuit
Breaking Code Silence’s Research Grant
The Breaking Code Silence Research Grant In June 2021, the Breaking Code Silence Board of Directors formally reviewed and voted on an application for $500,000 research grant to the Conrad Hilton Foundation. If approved, this grant would first be awarded to Breaking Code Silence and then transferred to ...
Precedent-setting victory to address the standard for establishing ownership of online accounts
Precedent-setting victory in the Second Circuit From the press release: A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP intellectual property litigators earned a precedent-setting victory regarding ownership of social media accounts in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday, Jan. 17. This decision is ...
Status Report Regarding Motion for Evidentiary and Monetary Sanctions
Status Report Regarding Motion for Evidentiary and Monetary Sanctions Below is the status report regarding the outcome of Phase 1 RE: Motion for Evidentiary and Monetary Sanctions under Rule 37. To find out more information on these sanctions, you can read the court-ordered IDC transcripts here and and ...
CA Protects Survivors from Predatory Defamation Lawsuits Meant to Silence Them
CA Gov. Newsom Signs MeToo Bill AB 933, Protecting Survivors from Predatory Defamation Lawsuits Meant to Silence Them On October 10, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) No. 933. The new law provides further protection to individuals who are victims of sexual offenses and ...
Motion For Summary Judgment – Jeremy Whiteley
From Jeremy Whiteley’s Motion for Summary Judgment. "Discovery has revealed that this lawsuit is no more than retribution. Breaking Code Silence’s principals had been plotting to sue Defendants long before the alleged deindexing of BCS’s website in an effort to: (1) trigger an insurance payout which ...
Forensic Investigation
Forensic Investigation Breaking Code Silence's Investigation According to BCS’s Complaint, in early March 2022, one of BCS’s board members was making changes to BCS’s website. The board member searched for BCS’s website on Google Search to see how the changes looked. However, when she searched for the ...
Breaking Code Silence’s Registry of Charitable Trusts Timeline
Breaking Code Silence's Registry of Charitable Trusts Timeline Click here to check Breaking Code Silence's status with the California Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Trusts
Breaking Code Silence’s IRS 990 Timeline
Breaking Code Silence's IRS 990 Timeline Click here to check Breaking Code Silence's 990 and tax-exempt status with the IRS
Breaking Code Silence’s Damages
Breaking Code Silence's Damages Breaking Code Silence's Damages Investigation Breaking Code Silence assigned Vanessa Hughes and Jennifer Magill as the Persons Most Qualified to speak on its behalf on the damages alleged. However, during their depositions, both appeared to struggle to articulate any cost to BCS related ...
The Domain
The Domain During this litigation, we believe that Breaking Code Silence's posture is that they believe that they somehow already own Mrs. McNamara's domain. Even more stunning, Breaking Code Silence admitted, through discovery, that Mrs. McNamara purchased this domain over a year before the company was incorporated, BCS ...
Breaking Code Silence Withdraws Most Claims
Breaking Code Silence withdraws most of its claims against McNamara and Whiteley In mid-October 2023, BCS, through counsel, agreed to withdraw the majority of the claims/allegations in the Complaint. At this time, only a few allegations remain. Below is the Order Granting Joint Stipulation to Strike Allegations and ...
Bankruptcy? Think Again
While most debts can generally be discharged by filing a bankruptcy case, certain debts are excepted from discharge. Sexual harassment, Breach of Contract, and Malicious Prosecution judgments may be excepted from discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(6), which excepts debts “for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to ...
A Plot To Sue?
A Plot To Sue? From the start of the federal action, Whiteley and McNamara have both contended that Breaking Code Silence’s Complaint was no more than judicial extortion and retaliation. Both Whiteley and McNamara believe that the Plaintiff’s allegations were a work of fiction designed to intimidate McNamara ...
The Pretender Part 2
The Pretender Part 2 Shortly after Dr. Schwartz's book was published, he received a demand letter from an attorney hired by Dr. Athena Kolbe outlining what they claimed to be over 100 factual inaccuracies. This letter threatened that legal action would be taken if Dr Schwartz did not ...
The Pretender Part 1
The Pretender Part 1 When Katherine McNamara and Jeremy Whiteley left Breaking Code Silence, Dr. Athena Kolbe was the director of research for Breaking Code Silence. She was listed as the Principle Investigator for the Breaking Code Silence research project which was originally subcontracted to the University of ...
Anonymous Employee
Anonymous Employee In November 2021, Breaking Code Silence hired several employees. All of the new employees were hired with a time-limitation of 2 months except for this employee. She was promised long-term employment at Breaking Code Silence but was laid off weeks later by now-CEO Jennifer Magill after ...
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An Alaskan Trust? – McNamara et al vs Breaking Code Silence Update
On July 18th, 2023, the following Declaration in Support of Attorney's Motion to be Relieved as Counsel - Civil was filed by Vanessa Hughes' counsel. MC–052 ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY (Name, state bar number, and address): FOR COURT USE ONLY TELEPHONE NO.: FAX NO.: ATTORNEY ...
Breaking Code Silence hasn’t registered to take donations in Colorado
Breaking Code Silence is registered in the State of Colorado as a Foreign Nonprofit Corporation. This is because they have a business presence in the State of Colorado. However they have not registered as a charity to legally accept donations. The State of Colorado requires all nonprofits doing ...
Joint Stipulation For Defendants Motion For Evidentiary/Monetary Sanctions
Joint Stipulation For Defendants Motion For Evidentiary/Monetary Sanctions From the Joint Stipulation For Defendant's Motion For Evidentiary and Monetary Sanctions Under Rule 37 of FRCP: Page 1: One of the primary allegations against Defendants (and virtually the only allegation against Jeremy Whiteley) is that the defendants were responsible ...
Joint Stipulation for Motion to Compel Slack Communications and For Sanctions
Joint Stipulation for Motion to Compel Slack Communications and For Sanctions From the Joint Stipulation Re: Defendants Katherine McNamara and Jeremy Whiteley's Motion to Compel Slack Communications and For Sanctions: One of the primary allegations against Defendants (and virtually the only allegation against Jeremy Whiteley) is that Defendants ...
California Attorney General Changes Breaking Code Silence’s Registry Status to “Delinquent”
Introduction - Breaking Code Silence, is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Every charitable corporation, including Breaking Code Silence, unincorporated association, charitable trustee and other legal entities holding property for charitable purposes, must file with the Attorney General an initial registration form and other documents required by law. Under Government Code ...
Informal Discovery Conference Transcript – August 11th, 2023
Informal Discovery Conference Transcript – August 9th, 2023 Pursuant to the court order from the in-person Informal Discovery Conference (IDC) on August 9th, 2023, the Honorable Judge Audero ordered Breaking Code Silence to post the following transcript to the public docket within 30 days. This in-person conference was ...