Final Might, Australian pop-rock duo Royel Otis bought some unfavorable consideration surrounding some eyebrow-raising lyrics to their hit single “Moody.” Across the identical time, a since-deleted thread within the r/triplej Subreddit alleged that the band’s Royel Maddell — actual identify Leroy Bressington — had a sexual relationship with a minor who was additionally their music scholar. Bressington has but to file a lawsuit, however in October, he did attempt to get the District Court docket Of Northern California to pressure Reddit, which is headquartered in San Fransisco, to disclose a number of Redditors’ confidential person knowledge together with names, e-mail addresses, and cellphone numbers in order that he might “ponder” suing them for defamation. That request has been denied.
In keeping with the official court docket docket, Bressington solely supposed to sue for defamation if the Reddit customers in query had been additionally based mostly in Australia. However even in that case, his utility did not explicitly say he deliberate to sue for defamation, solely that his authorized crew was “ready to provoke” an motion. The docket additionally states that nowhere in Bressington’s utility did he deny allegations of getting a sexual relationship with a minor; the one allegations he denied are that an ex-partner accused him of sexual misconduct, that he was charged by authorities, and that Royel Otis had been dropped from a document label. Bressington has additionally but to file any form of criticism in Australia concerning the matter. That, mixed along with his doubtful stance on whether or not or not he plans to sue for defamation, makes this worldwide request appear fairly sketchy.
We have seen authorized actions like this happen earlier than, albeit some with totally different outcomes: In 2022, a choose dominated that Twitter did have to supply details about an nameless person who posted allegations of sexual abuse focused at All Time Low guitarist Jack Barakat.
