A California Superior Court judge on Friday denied a motion for a finance-based temporary restraining order filed on behalf of Veronica Brill against Mike Postle. The motion sought to prevent Postle from spending or disbursing his poker winnings before paying Brill over $30,000 in legal fees he currently owes.
Superior Court Judge Richard K. Sueyoshi reviewed the ex parte motion filed on Brill's behalf by her defense attorney in Postle's failed $300 million defamation case, Marc J. Randazza. Judge Sueyoshi described Brill's motion as "both procedurally and substantially defective," which in turn allows Postle to retain the nearly $33,000 he won for a final-table showing in the Beau Rivage (MS) casino's Million Dollar Heater main event.
As happened with a parallel effort in Mississippi to garnish Postle's winnings, the rushed California effort couldn't pass all the legal and procedural hurdles in a timely manner. In essence, Judge Sueyoshi ruled that Brill and others acting on her behalf had to yet to exhaust all the other means of collecting a court-ordered debt before seeking the TRO.
Judge Sueyoshi also dismissed the motion's assertion that "fraudulent transfers" were conducted by Postle or others to his benefit, referring in general to the use by the Beau Rivage of the munged name "Mike Lawrence" in the casino's official chip counts. "Defendant has no pending causes of action to set aside fraudulent transfers," Sueyoshi wrote, "and even if it had such pending claims, Defendant has made no showing of an inadequate remedy at law or irreparable harm that requires injunctive relief.
