Stolen Lego Situation Takes Wild Turn As BAM CEO Makes Huge Mistake

[00:00:00]Right. So, for today's video, we have a bunch of new updates regarding the Bricks and Minifigs situation. And I was kind of like wanting to wait until we had a lot of new updates so we can make a longer video and we'd have a lot more to look at. And then, yeah, I think it's fair to say we have a lot to look at for today's video. Now, before we get into all of that, if you have watched my channel for the past few years, you might already be aware that once a year, my friends and I host a charity football match. We do this in memory of our friend Danny, who has been a huge part of our lives for literally as long as I can remember. Now, sadly, Danny passed away 3 years ago, and we have been hosting this charity football match for the past couple of years to raise money for Encephalitis International. Now, Encephalitis or Encephalitis, it's pronounced differently depending on where you're from, but Encephalitis is brain inflammation, and it can cause severe brain damage and even death. Now, as we can see here on the description for Encephalitis International, it says, "Encephalitis International is the only nonprofit of any size anywhere in the world providing direct support and information to people affected by Encephalitis, brain inflammation, raising awareness of the condition, and driving research to improve diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes." So, it really is a great cause, and each time I've mentioned this, you all have supported it massively, and we are very grateful.

[00:01:13]I know Encephalitis International is extremely grateful, but I also know Danny's family is extremely grateful and shocked, quite frankly, when they see like donations pop up from the other side of the planet. Like, they just can't believe it. So, yeah, we're doing it again this year. We want to try and raise as much money as possible for Encephalitis International. And if that is something that you want to do, or if that is something you're able to do, I understand like people have different financial situations, but if you're wanting to donate and you're able to donate, it's linked in the description.

[00:01:40]If you aren't able to, don't worry, that's not a problem. But yeah, like I said, if you want to and if you are able to donate, the link is going to be the top line of the description. And uh yeah, I appreciate it. But now, let's talk about Bricks and Minifigs. And like I mentioned at the beginning of the video, there are a lot of new updates. I really do feel like the fact that Ben has been silenced, right? He can actually no longer speak about the situation, it has only made other people want to speak about the situation more.

[00:02:05]Because it should go without saying, Ben shouldn't have been silenced here, right? I It's wild to me that that even happened, and hopefully we are going to hear from Ben soon. In fact, he kind of hinted towards this on his Patreon. We can see this post right here. There's a video attached to it. I'm not going to play it because, like I mentioned, it's on his Patreon. But, um yeah, we can see some text underneath the video that says, "An update of when I'll be able to talk again. Mark your calendars for June 30th." Now, someone who has recently spoke about the situation that I really didn't think we would hear from is actually Dan McNeely. Dan McNeely being Ammon McNeely's father, right? Ammon McNeely, CEO of Bricks and Minifigs. Dan McNeely, the former CEO of Bricks and Minifigs. And I mean, if you've been watching any videos regarding the whole Bricks and Minifigs situation at this point, you will definitely know who Dan McNeely is, right? He is the CEO of Legally Mine, who has um a very dodgy reputation, to say the least. And a few days ago, Dan McNeely actually released a statement on Facebook. Um I've got to say, his profile picture on Facebook did shock me to the point where I was like, this must be a fake account, but it's not. I looked at his posts and like his pictures from like 2009. It's a real account. But, for some reason, his profile picture is like uh an AI picture of him in like some type of uniform holding like cuddly toys.

[00:03:22]I don't really understand. But, either way, let's actually take a look at his now deleted post that was up for a good few days. I was surprised that he took it down because usually in situations like this, if they're going to delete a statement, it would be pretty quick.

[00:03:34]But, yeah, this was up for a few days, and this is what he had to say. "Today's version of a lynch mob could very well be YouTube investigators. At one point, six years ago, I was a CEO of Bricks and Minifigs. My sons illegally removed me from that position and sued me for control of another company that I founded. I have not had anything to do with Bricks and Minifigs since then.

[00:03:53]Yeah, so straight away, this is obviously a lot of information that we kind of already knew, right? We knew that Dan Mcneff was the former CEO of Bricks & Minifigs. I think I spoke about that in one of my my first videos. The main reason being because we obviously took a look at the franchise disclosure document from this one's 2020, but pre-2021, it showed that Dan Mcneff was the CEO of Bricks & Minifigs. And it seems like that kind of ended in disaster, right? I mean, in 2021, Ammon Mcneff actually sued Dan Mcneff. So, yeah, I think it's fair to say that they're probably not on the best of terms, especially now that we're reading Dan's new statement. But, what I will say is it is interesting that he's mentioned here, "My sons illegally removed me from that position and sued me for control of another company I founded." The lawsuit, again, we were aware of, but he is saying that he was illegally removed from Bricks & Minifigs. I would love to know more information on how that actually went down. But, if that is true, it definitely does make Ben's website he made called We Steal From Old People even more fitting because apparently it's been going on for a while. Regardless of this, in the last 10 days, I've been given multiple death threats, and 2 days ago, we saw people viewing our home from the hill behind our home with binoculars, and they shot out a big picture window that will cost thousands to replace. Yeah, I should have gone with what I was saying. If this has actually happened, this is obviously way too far. No one should be doing this. But, as we'll see as we read the statement further, he basically goes on to blame Ben for this, which doesn't really make sense to me because Ben wasn't the one who did whatever he's stating here. He's not the one who sent death threats from what I can tell. Ben called out a company for allegedly stealing from someone. And I mean, is it even alleged at this point? I mean, Ammon Mcneff, as we're going to see later, has admitted on multiple occasions in multiple interviews that Brian is owed a lot of money. Now, obviously, he's not trying to take any responsibility here, and he's trying to blame Crystal and Benjamin, but that was also one of his franchise stores regardless, right? It was a Bricks & Minifigs store, and Ben called it out.

[00:05:43]So, yeah, I don't think for a second Dan can sit here and blame Ben for this, right? Because if that was the case, you would never be able to call out anyone for stealing or scamming or anything like that based on the fact that others might react in the wrong way. But either way, let's carry on reading the statement. He goes on to say, "No one stops to investigate truly. They make a lot of assumptions and hurt innocent people. Every one of those Bricks & Minifigs stores are independently owned and operated and they don't deserve to be hurt. Many of the people pushing this whole story have their own LEGO stores and want to hurt their competition." And I mean, yeah, this might be partially true. There might be LEGO stores that are talking about this to try and help themselves. But this is one of the most like popular situations that people are talking about on the internet, right?

[00:06:21]Like millions and millions of people are invested in this. Millions and millions of people who don't own LEGO stores. So, to bring this up does seem a little bit irrelevant to me, to be honest. So, my question is, who watches the watchers?

[00:06:33]Will Reckless Ben investigate all the innocent people he has hurt and do what he can to help them? So, yeah, basically what we're saying here is that Dan is more upset that Ben called out a scam and theft than he is in the people who actually scammed and stole. Yeah, I can't say I'm very surprised that this is Dan's response to this whole thing because I mean, people have been calling out his company now because of the situation, right? And started looking into his company's past, which again, is not very good. I mean, there are countless amounts of people who have called out Legally Mine, Dan McNeely's company, for scamming them way before this Bricks & Minifigs situation was even a thing. So, now that more and more people are finding out about Legally Mine and their very dodgy reputation, it seems like Dan is trying to avoid all responsibility and is just trying to blame someone else. I mean, maybe [snorts] it runs in the family.

[00:07:23]Well, for me, I think the most interesting part about Dan's statement is when he mentions that Ammon actually took the company illegally, allegedly.

[00:07:31]And again, I would love to know more details of how that actually happened because this all clearly happened around 2021, right? That's when Dan was no longer the CEO of Bricks & Minifigs.

[00:07:41]That was also the time when Ammon McNeff and Matthew McNeff sued their dad, Daniel McNeff. And if you remember from when we previously spoke about this, that lawsuit was dismissed very quickly, right? It was settled outside of court.

[00:07:53]So, I do wonder if they came to some type of like agreement where like Ammon McNeff would take over Bricks and Minifigs, and then Dan McNeff could keep Legally Mine, and they just thought, "You know what? We don't like each other. We're going to separate, run two separate companies." Maybe that was part of the settlement. That is obviously a guess and could very well be wrong. In fact, it's very likely that it's wrong, right? I don't really have any evidence to prove that. But, clearly something happened within like the 20-day period of this lawsuit being filed and then it being dismissed. And by the looks of it, Ammon McNeff and Matt McNeff had some very big claims that they were making towards Dan McNeff. So, it really wouldn't surprise me if Dan McNeff had to do something pretty big and pretty drastic to get this dismissed, and maybe that would be handing over the company.

[00:08:35]Who knows? Now, one thing that has become very apparent since we've been talking about Minifigs is that Legally Mine and Bricks and Minifigs, and just the McNeff family, aren't exactly strangers to lawsuits. In fact, I saw this Reddit post a couple of weeks ago where they talk about all the cases that they could find, and there was a bunch of these that I personally couldn't find or couldn't access because, annoyingly, [snorts] you know, since I'm from the UK, when I try to access some of these like lawsuits from America, it's kind of hard for me to do that sometimes. The main reason being is because you obviously have to pay for a lot of these, but in a lot of cases, you also have to use a debit or credit card that has been registered in America, which I do not have. So, with that being said, if there's someone out there that wants to help me with this in the future, like accessing like lawsuits or just documents that I can't access here in the UK, let me know. Send me a message on Instagram. That could be very helpful. But, either way, actually getting back to the point I was trying to make here, there was one in particular that said, "McNeff, Daniel v.

[00:09:35]McNeff, Ammon." And to me, that looked like Dan McNeff was maybe suing Ammon McNeff. And I was very interested to see what that was actually about. Well, thanks to a YouTube channel called BJC Live Show, who I would definitely recommend, by the way, especially if you're interested in the whole Bricks and Minifigs stuff, because she's been covering the situation heavily, kind of looking through the legal side of things, right? Looking at like LLCs and lawsuits. And she is far more knowledgeable on that type of stuff than I am. So, yeah, I would definitely recommend checking out BJC Live Show, especially if you're invested in this Bricks and Minifigs situation. Well, in one of her recent live stream, she actually took a look at this document between Dan McNeff and Ammon McNeff. And it turns out it's actually a temporary restraining order. A restraining order that Dan McNeff was filing against Ammon McNeff. And I believe this is from 2020.

[00:10:21]This is before Ammon McNeff and Matt McNeff sued Dan McNeff. In fact, this restraining order was actually mentioned in that lawsuit a little bit later on.

[00:10:29]But we can now actually see the lawsuit.

[00:10:31]And it is a lot to do with the the control over the company. Clearly, Dan McNeff and Ammon and Matt, his sons, were clashing heads over this company for a long time, it seems. But one interesting thing that we do see here is an email sent from Dan McNeff to Ammon and Matt and a few other people at Legally Mine. And it first of all mentions a lawsuit that was filed in October 2019. And he says that it's created a lot of ill feelings between father and sons. And also a lot of apprehension on the part of Legally Mine employees. Many of the employees have just been waiting for the day when my presumed permanent exit would take place. And all have felt the animosity and split between sides that have been taken. So, yeah, by the looks of this, it just feels like Legally Mine was a complete mess at this point in time, at least, right? And it seems like it's been a mess for a long time when you look at the reviews. But yeah, there was clearly a battle going on between Dan and his sons for at least a couple of years. And I mean, they're mentioning here a lawsuit from 2019. We obviously know that there was a lawsuit filed in 2021. Dan McNeff was actually removed from Bricks and Minifigs in 2021 and also Amar McNeff and Matt McNeff left Legally Mine in 2021. So, this was clearly going on behind the scenes. It would be very interesting to see one of them do like an interview to talk about this situation further to see what actually happened and I don't know, maybe that might actually happen, you know, especially if Dam McNeff is now releasing statements. He might want to like tell his side of things, I guess.

[00:11:54]It might happen. Most, if not all of the Legally Mine employees are just tired of it and wanted to end and for us to go back working in a cohesive manner. I am one of those people. I feel it's in the best interest of Legally Mine to have Amar McNeff and Matthew McNeff vacate their offices at Legally Mine as well as their current responsibilities with respect to Legally Mine and Medisource Marketing. Accordingly, I'm having you move your offices to so-and-so office building and I want your attention focus on building BAM Franchising Inc. Yeah, it's interesting because when we were kind of all started like talk about this Bricks and Minifigs situation, you know, at the beginning, there was a lot of people trying to work out the links between Bricks and Minifigs and Legally Mine, but now it just became very apparent, right? They were obviously very heavily linked. I mean, they literally had the same CEO at one point, right? They they were very very heavily linked. And when you bear in mind how bad Legally Mine's reputation is when it comes to allegedly scamming people, it kind of makes this whole Bricks and Minifigs situation seem like less surprising. I would ask you to give Jonathan any and all administrative names and passwords so responsibilities for these can be taken by others. This would include all information to items such as the security system, email accounts, Google website, and the American Express loan. You are not being terminated and your pay will stay the same as long as you comply. We frankly need concentration focus on BAM Franchising Inc. and we need a clear leader at Legally Mine LLC. This lawsuit has been in essence a mutiny on the ship and as long as the lawsuit persists, so does the mutiny. If you want to pursue the lawsuit, that is your choice, but I do not want it affecting the work and all the atmosphere here at Legally Mine office. I mean, can we just talk about how ironic this is that this lawsuit was going on behind the scenes and it was causing mayhem in the Legally Minded offices. And then you've got to actually bear in mind what Legally Minded even is, the service they provide. I mean, there's countless amounts of interviews with Dad McNeft from years ago talking about Legally Minded and how proud he is of the tactics that he uses so his clients don't get sued. And then the company has a bunch of legal trouble.

[00:13:47]You've got the CEO being sued, but also being sued by people who are actually at the company. And not just that, also his own sons. You've got clients suing the company alleging that the company has scammed them. And obviously, as we know later on, Legally Minded was found to be practicing law unauthorized. Yeah, for a company called Legally Minded, they really don't seem to be all that great at the legal side of things. And the same can go for Bam, by the way, because I also came across a video by a YouTube channel called Legal Bytes. And the video that I want to talk about is titled Why Bricks and Minifigs CEO just torches defamation claims against Reckless Ben, lawyer explains. And by the way, before I start, I do just want to say this is a great video and I highly recommend watching it. She goes into a lot of detail in this like lawsuit between Bricks and Minifigs and Reckless Ben and Brian. I'm obviously not going to go through every single point that she makes throughout this video. So again, I would definitely recommend watching this. But basically, what she goes on to say is that Bricks and Minifigs have not only handled the situation the worst way possible, they might also just be actively sabotaging their own lawsuit. And this is specifically in regards to the defamation claims. And it's for a few reasons.

[00:14:52]>> You see, Utah recognizes conditional privileges for speech on certain important topics. And the Utah Supreme Court has recognized that one of them is called the public interest privilege.

[00:15:02]Specifically, the court in this case called Stig Miller said, "The public interest privilege is applicable at least when the public health and safety are involved and when there is a legitimate issue with respect to the functioning of government bodies, officials, or public institutions, or with respect to matters involving the expenditure of public funds."

[00:15:18]>> Now, obviously, as we've seen in Ben's video, there definitely does seem to be a public interest here because Ben is not only accusing Bricks and Minifigs and saying that they just stole and that's the the whole story. He also mentions that the police are covering it up and he shows evidence to prove that the police have not really handled the situation great at all.

[00:15:36]>> Ben spent his life collecting what's now known as the world's largest LEGO Star Wars collection ever. It's estimated to be worth around $200,000 and then the entire thing got stolen and the police are actively working with the thieves to cover the entire thing.

[00:15:53]>> And foolishly, the plaintiffs here even included the police allegation as one of the allegedly defamatory statements that Ben made against them. So even just looking at the allegations on their face in this complaint, this is going to fit in really nicely with what the Utah Supreme Court has said is a privileged statement under the public interest privilege. And all of that means that the plaintiff is going to have a very hard time proving that element that requires that the statement isn't privileged.

[00:16:17]>> And on top of that, Legal Bytes thinks it's going to be very hard for Bricks and Minifigs to prove that Ben had actual malice.

[00:16:23]>> So with that, we've got the conditional privilege issue that the plaintiffs have that they probably won't be able to meet their element there. And then we also have this actual malice element that they probably also, in my opinion, won't be able to meet.

[00:16:34]>> at this point in the video where Legal Bytes goes on to talk about Utah's anti-SLAPP laws. And something that is protected under Utah's anti-SLAPP laws is speech on a matter of public concern.

[00:16:44]So because of this, Legal Bytes feels like Ben should actually file an anti-SLAPP motion.

[00:16:48]>> And so the same analysis for a public interest privilege should fit right here to show that yeah, this is exactly the kind of case where Reckless Ben can and probably should file an anti-SLAPP motion.

[00:16:59]>> And this is what I mean about how it seems like I'm a McNeff is just sabotaging his own lawsuit because obviously he's suing Ben for defamation and he has to prove that Ben is lying.

[00:17:09]There's obviously other factors like malice and stuff like this, but the problem here is that I'm a McNeff has mentioned on multiple occasions that Brian Mancelle is owed money. In fact, he actually goes on to say that he was severely underpaid.

[00:17:21]>> However, unfortunately, um we had a franchisee go rogue and uh enter into a consignment agreement without our knowledge or authorization.

[00:17:30]>> So, he pins the whole consignment mess on the former franchisee Crystal. I already talked in the last video on this controversy why I think this claim of unauthorized consignment agreements is a really weak argument. And the Gourmand's will probably also have plenty to say about that themselves in their own lawsuit against Bricks and Minifigs over the store takeover. But, here's the thing. I don't think this finger pointing is going to get McNeft too far here because watch what he admits next.

[00:17:54]>> And uh in in the shuffle, um there there appears to have been um uh just some some confusion as to how, why, and where, you know, like some of this came about. And as we tried to figure that out, we started uncovering more documents, more information, and what we were found was that there were three separate sets of uh records that were being kept that that shows that uh Mr. Mansell was uh significantly underpaid by that former franchisee.

[00:18:23]>> So, yeah, as we can see, I'm McNeft on multiple occasions actually, not even just this interview, but he has admitted that Brian Mansell was significantly underpaid. And he was significantly underpaid by Bricks and Minifigs, regardless of who is actually to blame, right? If it was like the the franchisee or whoever else. Whoever's to blame, he was significantly underpaid by Bricks and Minifigs. Which is obviously Ben's main claim against Bricks and Minifigs.

[00:18:48]So, how is he going to prove that what Ben said is untrue? Now, obviously, you could say maybe he was putting the blame on the wrong people or something along them lines, but LegalBytes goes on to mention this in her video, and she says like, "How could you even expect Ben to know how the inner workings of Bricks and Minifigs actually works and who he should be specifically blaming here?"

[00:19:08]>> Now, Reckless Ben may have been somewhat imprecise about who specifically is responsible for that alleged theft. But remember, he doesn't have to be right on all the tiny details. The statement just has to be substantially true. And here's another thing. Ben and the Menzels are outsiders to this business structure.

[00:19:26]They couldn't possibly be expected to know exactly who sold or pocketed which LEGO set and how these various entities interact with one another specifically.

[00:19:34]And that's especially when they're completely stonewalled when asking questions by every single level of Bricks and Minifigs every step of the way.

[00:19:43]>> Yeah, I mean, we saw in Ben's video, right? They were literally giving him no information. He goes to the corporate offices, speaks to Ammon McNeff, who quite literally just says like, "No, didn't happen, not true." So, yeah, even though I clearly don't have as much knowledge as Legal Bytes when it comes to this type of stuff, this makes complete sense to me, right? How could they ever expect Ben to know how the company actually runs and who he should specifically blame here. Ben said that Bricks and Minifigs owes Brian Menzels a significant amount of money, which is obviously true. And in fact, Legal Bytes goes on to say that Ammon has made this whole thing like far easier for Ben.

[00:20:17]>> And because of that, he just made it so much easier for Reckless Ben to show, even before this ever gets to trial, in an anti-SLAPP motion, that all of his statements at issue are actually substantially true. And so, if the judge agrees with how I'm reading this with regards to the anti-SLAPP motion, Bricks and Minifigs could be on the hook for all of Ben's attorney's fees on this issue. And also, riddle me this, Batman.

[00:20:41]What do we think is going to happen to the Bricks and Minifigs PR campaign if a judge decides that not only should this lawsuit be dismissed under Utah's anti-SLAPP law, but that the reason it should be dismissed is because, well, everything Reckless Ben accused Bricks and Minifigs of doing was substantially true.

[00:21:00]>> Yeah, I mean, that would make Bricks and Minifigs look far worse in this whole situation, and they would only have themselves to blame. Now, obviously, we don't know for a fact how this is going to play out. We're going to have to wait and see, but this would be a great conclusion, right? If a judge rules that this should be dismissed due to the fact that what Ben said is substantially true. Again, it looks really bad for Bricks and Minifigs, but also it just feels like the right thing to happen, right? Because Bricks and Minifigs are trying their absolute best to silence as many people as they possibly can, and they're doing this whilst they're just trying to avoid all responsibility.

[00:21:31]They're obviously pretending to take some accountability here, right? They keep saying like "Oh, Brian, we'll we'll sit down and talk to you. We'll sort it all out." But then they're also suing Brian, which makes no sense.

[00:21:41]Unfortunately, people can see right through it. And again, this is all Bricks and Minifigs fault, right? This situation like would probably be something that we would no longer be speaking about if it was just solved straight away, right? They find out that Brian's owed a bunch of money, they pay him that money, we probably never hear from Bricks and Minifigs again. But it's their own actions that has made this such a viral topic for people to speak about, and it's the reason why we're still speaking about it now. And it's the reason why so much more information is now being found, like especially in regards like Legally Mine and Dan McNeerf and stuff like that. Like this story should really be used in like PR meetings for companies to show people like exactly what you shouldn't do if you're ever in a situation like this.

[00:22:20]Because quite frankly, this is probably the worst way I've ever seen a company respond to like a a viral topic. I mean, that's what we speak about on this channel, right? We speak about companies being accused of scamming people all the time. I've never seen a company respond this badly. Nowhere near it. Now, a couple of other things I want to mention at the end of this video. I mean, first of all, it seems like Ben actually has representation now, which is a good thing. I don't think I spoke about this in my previous video, but basically there was like an audio released that like pre-trial, I believe, where Ben basically says that he's representing himself, which obviously worried a lot of people. It was for one of like the smaller charge, I believe, right? That it was like misdemeanors for trespassing when he showed up to Bam Corporate. It was with a different police department, it wasn't an Fork. But the good thing here is in regards to American Fork who clearly not very big fans of Reckless Ben, it does seem like Ben actually does have representation now. We can see here that two appearance of counsel have been filed. The first one being John D.

[00:23:15]Williams and the second one being Jeremy Delaceno, which is obviously good to see. I mean the absolute worst possible scenario that could have happened to here is that Ben was representing himself against American Fork police department. That would be disastrous.

[00:23:27]Now something else that I came across that I do feel like is worth mentioning because I've also seen a lot of people kind of talk about the other franchisees that are not involved with this situation and they're wondering like how they're going to respond to this. Like are they going to try and get out of their franchise agreements and stuff like that. Well, it seems like that's going to be pretty hard to do. I mean we see a conversation here on Facebook where someone has said, "I hope you can get out of the franchise without too much damage. Your CEO is going to run this company into the ground." To which the Bricks & Minifigs Seattle Northgate account has replied saying, "Speaking with many people that are experts in this legal area, there is an extremely high bar to get out of a franchise agreement. So the truth of the matter is that I am going to have to find a way to succeed as a Bricks & Minifigs store and hopefully our customers continue to come and support us and help us spread as much Lego joy in our community as possible. I wish you the best and have a good rest of the week." So yeah, judging by this it seems like even if these franchisees wanted to get out of their agreement, it would be incredibly hard to do so. And honestly, I can imagine this is a terrible situation for a lot of these, right? Because a lot of these franchisees will no longer want to partner with Bricks & Minifigs. But if this is the case and they can't get out of it, they don't really have a choice.

[00:24:34]And it is a big shame because they have quite literally done nothing in this situation. It just so happens that they have the Bricks & Minifigs branding. Now actually the last thing that I want to talk about in this video is the temporary restraining order that was filed by BAM, Ammon, Matthew, Josh Johnson, Brandon Best, the LLC so and so against Ben, Brian, and Victor. Now a couple of things you might notice here is first of all, Crystal and Benjamin, the the previous owners of the store in Salem are not actually listed as defendants here, but it does list doors 1 to 15, which to the best of my knowledge are basically like placeholder names for like other defendants that they haven't listed here yet. So, even though Crystal and Benjamin, the the previous owners of the Salem store are not listed as defendants, this does seem to actually affect them. In fact, the wording on this restraining order is incredibly vague. Like we can see here line five it says, "Plaintiffs are entitled to entry of this temporary restraining order and co-defendants including doors 1 to 15, their affiliates, co-conspirators, employees, contractors, agents, and representatives, and anyone acting in concert with them, directly or indirectly, in person, remotely, or online are immediately restrained from and it goes through the things they're restrained from." But, this is what I mean about it being vague, right? So, this affects defendants, but also like affiliates, co-conspirators, employees, contractors, basically anyone that could even be like slightly linked to this situation, it seems. And in fact, if we actually look at 5K here, it says, "Maintaining the current publications and any other video, audio, or other form of publication posted on any streaming platform by co-defendants directly or indirectly, and requiring that the publications and any other such communications published by co-defendants be immediately removed and/or taken down from any online streaming platform or otherwise published that in any way relate to the private legal dispute underlying this matter between Brian and Crystal and the assertions of wrongdoing as described in his verified complaint." So, they do actually go on to kind of name Crystal here, right? And with the way that they've worded this, again, this seems like it could be affecting Crystal and Benjamin, too. Even though, again, they're not even listed as defendants.

[00:26:38]In fact, Crystal and Benjamin are actually suing Bricks and Minifigs currently. So, seeing this is obviously a concern for Crystal and Benjamin because it basically erases their speech in regards to their own case where they're suing in and Minifigs. And because of this, they have actually filed a motion for limited intervention and request for expedited hearing, which to the best of my knowledge is them basically requesting a third party join the the the lawsuit, basically. And the reason they're doing this is to try and rectify this temporary restraining order, which again seemingly affects them, too. I mean, we see here it says, "The LawGomer parties are not defendants in this case. They are the plaintiffs in a separate action pending in the Utah business and Chancery Court arising from BAM Franchising Inc.'s termination of their Bricks and Minifigs franchise in Salem, Oregon. They have never been named, served, or joined in here. Yet, the ex parte TRO entered in this case on June 2nd, 2026 defines the scope of its central mandatory provisions by direct reference to one of them." And yeah, they basically go on to reference some of like the commands from the the restraining order, and they're basically saying, like, "The [ __ ] are we doing?

[00:27:40]Like, why are we involved?" Especially since we're suing Bricks and Minifigs in a different court. And we can see here they go on to say, "They therefore face an intolerable position. An order entered ex parte in a case to which they are strangers by its terms erases speech concerning their own dispute from the public record and threatens to be enforced against them through concert, co-conspirator, and dual language, all without service, joinder, notice, bond, or any opportunity to be heard. Due process does not permit a court to adjudicate the right of a non non-party by description rather than by joinder.

[00:28:12]The LawGomer parties seek only the limited opportunity to be heard in the scope of relief before the TRO is converted into preliminary injunction on June 22nd, 2026." And again, this is going to have to be something that we have to just wait and see and see how it plays out. But yeah, I mean, I think it's wild that this affects them so much when again, they weren't even defendants. But yeah, either way, that's all the updates that I have for today's video. Again, I'm probably going to be making a few more parts on the situation if we're being honest here. When there has been enough updates for me to make like kind of like a full longer video on the topic. Um yeah, so that'll probably be coming in the next few days if we're an honest.

[00:28:48]We're getting new updates basically every single day. So, I don't think there'll be a long wait till the next video. Now again, before the video ends, I do just want to mention that my friends and I are hosting a charity football game in memory of our friend Danny who unfortunately passed away a few years ago and all the money raised is going to be going towards Encephalitis International, which is a great cause. So, if you want to donate and you are able to donate, the link will be in the description. You can do it there. Again, I know for a fact that the charity is incredibly grateful.

[00:29:13]They've mentioned how grateful they are every year that we've been doing this and I know Danny's family are incredibly grateful, too. And yeah, they're just shocked when they see all these donations coming in. So, if you want to support, again, it's linked in the description. And yeah, if you did enjoy the video, please do leave a like down below. Subscribe if you are new. And until the next one, I'll see you guys in a bit. All right, goodbye.