{"id":125986,"date":"2025-03-28T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125986"},"modified":"2025-03-28T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:16:19","slug":"coffeezilla-shouldnt-duck-logan-paul-suit-over-cryptozoo-claims-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125986","title":{"rendered":"Coffeezilla shouldn\u2019t duck Logan Paul suit over CryptoZoo claims: Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsInfluencer Logan Paul should be allowed to continue a lawsuit accusing the YouTuber known as \u201cCoffeezilla\u201d of making defamatory remarks about Paul\u2019s failed CryptoZoo project, a Texas magistrate judge said.<br \/>\nIn a March 26 report filed in a San Antonio federal court, Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad recommended that federal Judge Orlando Garcia, overseeing the case, deny Stephen Findeisen\u2019s bid to toss Paul\u2019s lawsuit, as Findeisen presented his claims more akin to facts than \u201cmere opinion.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAt the pleading stage, Plaintiff [Paul] has sufficiently alleged that the statements at issue in this case are reasonably capable of defamatory meaning and are not unactionable opinions,\u201d Bemporad wrote.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Court should reject Defendants\u2019 contention that context renders Findeisen\u2019s statements nondefamatory,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nPaul sued Findeisen in June, claiming one of Findeisen\u2019s X posts and two YouTube videos about his CryptoZoo non-fungible token (NFT) project were malicious and caused reputational damage.<br \/>\nCryptoZoo was pinned as a blockchain game where players buy NFT \u201ceggs\u201d that would hatch into animals that could be bred to create unique animals to earn tokens depending on their rarity. The game is yet to materialize.<br \/>\nAn example of a CryptoZoo NFT animal that combines a shark and an elephant. Source: CryptoZooPaul claimed Findeisen called him \u201ca serial scammer\u201d and that CryptoZoo was a \u201cscam\u201d and a \u201cmassive con,\u201d which Paul denied.\u00a0<br \/>\nFindeisen asked the court for an early judgment last month, claiming his statements were made to be taken as opinions and his videos had disclaimers in the description section saying as such.<br \/>\nBut Bemporad found that \u201cFindeisen\u2019s three statements meet the legal definition of defamatory\u201d and noted that the disclaimers \u201care not particularly prominent\u201d and are \u201cvisible only when the section is expanded.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cEven if the disclaimers were more prominently on display, however, they would not materially change the factual nature of Findeisen\u2019s assertions,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nRelated: Crypto influencer Ben \u2018BitBoy\u2019 Armstrong arrested in Florida\u00a0<br \/>\nPaul or Findeisen can object to Bemporad\u2019s report within 14 days. Lawyers for Paul and Findeisen did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside of business hours.<br \/>\nFindeisen also released three videos in 2022 on CryptoZoo, which Paul did not bring defamation accusations against but previously threatened to sue over.\u00a0<br \/>\nHe later backtracked, apologized, and in January 2023, promised to come up with a plan for CryptoZoo \u2014 which came a year later with Paul earmarking $2.3 million for refunds so long as claimants agreed not to sue over the project.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, a group of CryptoZoo buyers sued Paul and others they accused of being involved in the business in a class-action lawsuit, which Paul has asked to have tossed. He has also filed a counter-suit against two business partners he claimed were to blame for CryptoZoo\u2019s failure.<br \/>\nMagazine: Meet lawyer Max Burwick \u2014 \u2018The ambulance chaser of crypto\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/coffeezilla-should-not-duck-logan-paul-cryptozoo-claims-suit-judge?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsInfluencer Logan Paul should be allowed to continue a lawsuit accusing the YouTuber known as \u201cCoffeezilla\u201d of making defamatory remarks about Paul\u2019s failed CryptoZoo project, a Texas magistrate&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}