Monday saw the long-awaited filing of a motion to dismiss by superstar attorney Steve Vondaran on behalf of his client Jonathan “Frauditor Troll” Huneault, as they seek to rid themselves of a lawsuit brought by Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova.
In his suit, Cordova, through attorney that Randall S. “The Unhinged Attorney” Newman, Esq., alleges that Huneault used his YouTube videos without permission or transformative value, lied on his DMCA counternotification and used means to download Cordova’s works that circumvented YouTube’s technical protection measures.
Huneault’s Monday filing of the motion to dismiss comes in place of a response to Cordova’s first amended complaint, which was filed on November 3, 2025. That complaint added Huneault’s 14693663 Canada Inc. as a defendant along with the new charges of circumvention and infringement of the recently registered Belmar Library video.
Monday’s motion to dismiss is broken into a notice of the motion, the motion itself, a declaration from defendant Jonathan Huneault, four exhibits and a proposed order to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice.
The notice starts by setting a hearing date for December 30, 2025, at 10AM where Vondran will move for the dismissal of counts 2-4 on grounds that Cordova failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Vondran ignored the copyright infringement clams on two of the videos in question, Another Chad and the aforementioned Belmar Library video.
Vondran states that Huneault’s work is parody and is protected use under the DMCA so he did not violate 512(f) by making misrepresentations in the counternotices and that Cordova lacks standing to file the circumvention claim as it must be made on behalf of YouTube.
The motion moves on with a sense of vagueness, a lot of the same arguments are made, with the added and shocking revelation that at one point plaintiff Cordova supposedly said the following:
“I kinda lost my was a little bit because I preach a lot on my spiritual channel that what you resist persist right? That fighting for peace is like shouting for silence so…uhm as far as like as like going against you and being like ah I’m going to sue you and all that kind of stuff its just that’s just perpetuating it and making everything worst I feel like so. I don’t have a problem with what you guys do you guys do your own thing you guys have your followers that disagree with what we do and that’s fine uhm and I don’t have anything against you guys you know you guys do what you do and I do what I do”
A single line is given to the testimony in passing in Vondran’s brief, leaving it for readers to find in the exhibits, with no links to the actual video or context of the video provided. The video reportedly will be included in Frauditor Troll’s Tuesday night livestream, but without the direct URL to the actual originating video, and not Frauditor Troll’s version of the video, the impact is dubious at best in court.
It also begs the question, where was this evidence months ago and why must the supposedly world destroying admission be crammed onto a motion to dismiss that the Judge has said she didn’t want instead of an actual response to Cordova’s amended complaint?
The secondary surprise proof of a screen shot of a conversation between Huneault and a random fan from 2022, which is played up as proof that Huneault used a screen capture program rather than a downloading program to obtain Cordova’s footage, also fails for the same reason. It can’t be authenticated.
While damning, and sure to delight his fans and the growing group of YouTubers who have assembled to oppose everything Attorney Newman does online, the flaws may ultimately bring disappointment to Huneault’s fans if the Judge does not accept these last-minute inclusions when she rules on the motion to dismiss.
Huneault has previously said that the lawsuit will be thrown out by the end of the year. That has now been proven impossible as the court clerk issued the following update Thursday afternoon:
CLERK’S NOTICE SETTING HEARING AND DEADLINES RE 43 MOTION TO DISMISS. A Motion Hearing is set for 1/13/2026 at 10:00 AM in San Jose, Courtroom 2, 5th Floor before Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi.Responses due by 12/8/2025. Replies due by 12/15/2025. (This is a text-only entry generated by the court. There is no document associated with this entry.), Set/Reset Deadlines as to (smc, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 11/25/2025) (Entered: 11/25/2025)
This is a developing news story.
Cordova v. Huneault – 43 – Notice Cordova v. Huneault – 43-1 – Motion to Dismiss Cordova v. Huneault – 43-2 – Declaration Cordova v. Huneault – 43-3 – Exhibit A Cordova v. Huneault – 43-4 – Exhibit B Cordova v. Huneault – 43-5 – Exhibit C Cordova v. Huneault – 43-6 – Exhibit D Cordova v. Huneault – 43-7 – Proposed Order
Jf the Judge does not accept these last-minute inclusions when she rules on the motion to dismiss.
I object to the use of the phrase “last minute.” As, there has been no trial, no discovery, in fact nothing, not even the preliminary hearings on the newest motion by DMA, there is no last minute. Furthermore, as this is a developing story, this is a developing case. So, they get to add anything and everything they want to. Nothing has been ruled out and no timeline has been violated.
An unfair surprise is when the defense or the plaintiff were to try to introduce evidence at the end of a trial or after they have closed their phase for introducing evidence. Such as a witness, they did not call, or was not on their witness list. That would be a last minute surprise.
A few other thoughts, The plaintiff and his joke of a lawyer are in deep water. They failed to include Youtube in their suit. So, while they can correct that, they cannot assert the rights of YT to make a complaint on behalf of YT. Just like I cannot sue FT on DMA’s behalf as I have no such right, or in legal terms, i have no standing. A lawyer from YT would have standing but YT was not included in the lolsuit.
Sadly, as they go to court, it is becoming increasingly clear, just how out of their depth they are. The pro boner from bang kok should have keep to his hate rallies. He failed in court this week over the sovcit defense. I challenge jurisdiction. He choked, floundered and stumbled. All the while, stuttering about nonsense. It was clear he had not even thought of being asked such a question. Opps. Benson needed a lawyer in court. Instead she had this fool.
DMA has vowed to hold out until the very end. It may end in January but even so, just how much money does he think he is going to get here? If he wins? Millions? Thousands? pocket change? The longer he holds out before admitting his losing case is DOA the more he will rack up the cost to himself. Not that he has to pay his own lawyer but that he will have to pay FT legal costs. That condo sale happen yet? Cause the case you make might have to be turned over to FT in whole, or in part.
DMA needs a real lawyer to look at his case and tell him reality. His odds of winning are slim at best and the amount of money will be very low. His best bet now is to bail on things. Get out while the costs will be manageable. Make a deal to cover some of the amount and walk away before it is too late. He has no case, he has no claim that need be answered and lastly, he has no chance of making this into a pay day. FT is not going away. The whole scam was premised on the hope that FT would not appear, that they could get a default judgement and they could grab the YT money FT makes every month.
Sadly, none of that happened and none of it will happen.
At some point this will dawn on DMA, that his so called lawyer is best left shouting hatred at his hate rallies then trying to pretend to be a lawyer in court. His performance has been underwhelming thus far and not expected to get any better, any time soon. The legal community has been universally derisive of the lolsuit with only Merb coming out in his support. And that was merely Merb getting his own digs into FT and not cause he supported DMA or his lolsuit. Once there was a real lawyer in the case for FT and a response in the file, merb ran away from this case as fast as he could back peddle. When you only alli is in this to take shots at the other guy and runs soon as any opposition shows up. that got to tell you this case is a dud and DOA.
Sadly DMA would need professional advice to know that he is lost and his case is in tatters.
And Jim, FT has a video out where he explains why he did not have the video until now. And how DMA admitted that they do not share an audience and gave FT permission to make his videos. This is the sort of information a lawyer, a real lawyer, even just a competent lawyer would have discovered before filing a lolsuit like this.
It only get funnier as we go along. And the price DMA is going to have pay to settle his legal bills to FT will only increase. Get out of this while you still can, before you will just have to sign over that condo to FT’s lawers.