Chronicles of Twatrick: Hammer to fall.

For those who have been following this meandering saga for years, let it be known that the hammer is finally about to fall on massively-indebted undischarged bankrupt and financial fugitive Patrick "Super Quintuple Nexus Threat High School Chick Magnet Quadruple Chin" Ross, as I have just had confirmed my filing at the Grande Prairie courthouse of my Rule 4.33 Application. This is colloquially known as Alberta's "Drop Dead Rule," and it is going to put an end to Patrick Ross' idiotic defamation lawsuit against me once and for all.

The idea behind Alberta's Rule 4.33 is nad-grindingly simple -- if the Plaintiff (that would be Patrick) files a civil action, then at some point proceeds to do nothing with it for three straight years, then upon a Rule 4.33 application by the Defendant (me), the Court is required to dismiss the action. Required. This is not discretionary for the Court, it's mandatory. The Court has no choice but to kick the lawsuit to the curb. This applies exactly to this case as Patrick filed his meritless dumbfuck stupidity in August of 2022, and the last activity of any kind was in December 2022. That's more than three years, which means Patrick's lawsuit is toast.

Lest you think I exaggerate or embellish, here is Google AI's devastatingly accurate characterization of that Rule:

 

 

Let me expand on the above so you can truly appreciate how Patrick is absolutely fucked here. (That scrabbling sound you hear is Patrick frantically Googling "Rule 4.33".)

First, you can see in the opening paragraph above the hard three-year deadline related to the application, which does not actually require no activity for three years, simply "no significant advancement" of the file. What this means (and has been affirmed several times by Alberta courts) is that even if you did some stuff during those three years, unless it represented actually moving the case along toward a resolution, it doesn't count. In Patrick's case, there was literally no activity whatsoever. Not just nothing significant ... nothing at all. None. Zilch. Sweet fuck all. So Patrick has definitely blown that three-year deadline.

If you read further, there are a small number of exceptions under which the Court will not dismiss an action under Rule 4.33 -- I can assure you that absolutely none of them apply here so there is nothing that will save Patrick in any way. So let me say this again -- now that I've filed my Rule 4.33 Application, there is absolutely nothing Patrick can do to stop it. (If you don't believe me, do your own research, then come back and tell me if I've misrepresented anything.) But we're not done yet.

You see, a successful Rule 4.33 applicant (again, me) will be entitled to costs. And how much costs? I'm glad you asked, so I asked Google about this, and here is the AI output:

 

 

Note how costs would normally be partial indemnity, unless ... yeah ... unless the Plaintiff's behaviour was "reprehensible, scandalous or outrageous", and if the opposing party's conduct is seen as "an abuse of process." Do you think it will be difficult to demonstrate Patrick's bad faith in filing such a frivolous and meritless lawsuit? I don't. And I will be strenuously arguing for full costs based on Patrick's online behaviour in the last three years (all of which I have been screenshotting for just this occasion).

In fact, it gets even worse for Patrick but I will keep that to myself for now. In closing, you are all welcome to check into Alberta's Rule 4.33 to satisfy yourself that, now that my Application has been filed, there is absolutely nothing Patrick can do to defeat it, and the Court will be required to dismiss his idiocy, and award me costs.

The irony, of course, is that Patrick filing a worthless lawsuit, then just sitting on it for years so he could keep bragging about it while refusing to move it forward, is exactly why he is now so screwed.

P.S. If any of my loyal fans are so inclined, you are welcome to bring this new development to Patrick's attention any way you wish (Twitter account "outlawtory", email address "dragonfireideas@gmail.com"). I suspect Patrick will desperately want to blar-har-har all of this on social media, but that will only prove he's now aware of it, which will make service so much simpler.

He really is utterly screwed.

BONUS TRACK: Oh, my, poor Patrick just buried himself even deeper with this idiotic tweet, proving that he follows this blog, which is not going to end well for him in court.

 

MORE AFTERSNARK: Appreciate if you will the irony in Patrick describing his pet lawsuit as "extremely-meritorious." One wonders if, after he does his research, he will realize that Rule 4.33 applications are purely and solely time-based; the merit (or lack thereof) of the underlying action being dismissed for long delay is totally irrelevant. That is, while Patrick's lawsuit is definitely absolute garbage, it wouldn't make the slightest difference if it wasn't.