A defamation lawsuit long-forgotten by Axanar producer Alec Peters is coming back to haunt him in a new move by his legal opponent in the Nevada lawsuit over the sale of the Enterprise-E model.

See also: hero_prop_suit

• The plaintiff in the Nevada suit, Tiana Armstrong, is going after at least $13,000 in damages Peters owes but has never paid to a blogger who criticized his business practices.
• Peters sued Jason DeBord in 2010, claiming DeBord’s Original Prop Blog had published defamatory articles about Peters and his company.
• Case thrown out: That case was thrown out after a judge found it was intended to stifle DeBord’s right to free speech.
• Peters never paid the $26,000 in attorney’s fees and court costs to DeBord and the blog (co-defendants). DeBord was personally owed $13,000.
• Purchased judgment: According to court documents filed in Nevada, Armstrong purchased DeBord’s personal judgment, making him whole eight years since Peters’ lawsuit was struck. (We’ll make the documents available on AxaMonitor.com)
• Pursuing payment. The court documents also show that Armstrong is seeking to get a Georgia court to allow her to pursue the DeBord judgment directly from Peters.

Why it matters: Contacted by AxaMonitor, Armstrong would not comment on why she purchased DeBord’s judgment. But a few possibilities emerge:

• Swaying the judge: Hero Prop’s suit will be decided by a judge, Armstrong having waived a jury trial.
• Who owes whom: The judgment allows Armstrong to demonstrate going into trial that Peters owes her thousands of dollars.
• Forcing payment: Once the California judgment is allowed to be pursued against Peters in Georgia, he’ll either have to pay it to resolve the long-ignored damages or let Armstrong use his non-payment at trial, and possibly to spotlight the hundreds of thousands of dollars Peters and Propworx owe many creditors, including his attorney in the lost case against DeBord.