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Case Filing
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
CIVIL ACTION
lucaaasserole (Represented by zLost)
Plaintiff
v.
Department of Public Affairs
Defendant
COMPLAINT
The Plaintiff complains against the Defendant as follows:
WRITTEN STATEMENT FROM THE PLAINTIFF
I. PARTIES
1. lucaaasserole
2. Department of Public Affairs
II. FACTS
1. On the 27th of June 2025, zLost talked in the DPA union group chat about multiple secret roles that they had found in the DPA discord (Exhibit A).
2. On the 27th of June 2025, lucaaasserole gave himself the Bots role while checking if it had administrator permissions. Luca subsequently forgot about this and didn't notice as they already had administrator permissions from the Leadership role (Exhibit B).
3. On the 10th of July 2025, lucaaasserole was fired for this action while being told that appeals were not being accepted for this decision (Exhibit C).
III. CLAIMS FOR RELIEF
1. The Commercial Standards Act (link) states:
(1) Unfair dismissal - The unjust termination of an employee. In determining if a termination was unjust, the following criteria must rightfully be considered:
(a) if the employee’s termination made financial sense given the regular business activities and necessity to maintain operations of the terminating party (such as in the case of normal company downsizing);
(b) whether or not the employee’s continued employment would have been a detriment to the workflow, reputation, or legal standing of the business;
(c) whether or not the dismissal was made primarily on the basis of any personally identifiable characteristics, including, but not limited to, gender, race, or political affiliation;
For section (a), there would have been no financial harm to the DPA if luca was kept as an Event Manager.
For section (b), there would have been basically no harm to the workflow, reputation or legal standing of the business. What luca did was not illegal or disrupted the workflow (they already had admin, having the role would have zero effect on workflow). As for reputation, most people sympathized and understood luca's actions, as shown by the number of ayes in a petition for luca to be rehired (Exhibit D).
For section (c), we believe that luca's affiliation with the union (Exhibit E) was largely taken into account when he was fired for the following reasons:
An anonymous witness reported that xDarkkex, current DPA secretary, was attempting to get rid of union members if they contacted anyone from the event, or if they "disrupted" the event (Exhibit F). Representative Moyfr commented in a public channel, "Like when we were in vc the other day bro was talking about how all the union people are I love DemocracyCraft!ed because he is gathering evidence to find reasons to fire and have them all banned" ("bro" here refers to xDarkkex)(Exhibit G). xDarkkex has also given multiple negative comments about the union (Exhibit H). xDarkkex has also justified baseless claims without evidence to interrogate and threaten union members (Exhibit I). Juniperfig, who was acting in xDarkkex's stead when firing luca, has shown disdain for the union (Exhibit J).
Besides this, a DPA employee was seen maliciously abusing their perms in the DPA discord, which xDarkkex shrugged off since "they were about to quit" (Exhibit K). This DPA employee later decided to not quit, and neither xDarkkex nor juniperfig did anything about this perms abuse.
As we see, luca's firing meets all the criteria for being considered an unfair dismissal according to the Commercial Standards Act (link).
Your Honor, I ask you how it's fair for someone who has dedicated hundreds of hours into the Department of Public Affairs to be fired with zero warning for an action with good intentions, and to be essentially ignored by the Department of Public Affairs when they try to justify themselves and argue against this firing.
2. The Department of Public Affairs also committed union busting by firing luca, as the Commercial Standards Act (link) states:
(6) Employers who take action to disrupt or prevent the formation of a union, and or engage in conduct to dismantle a union, such as, but not limited to, terminating employees who try to start a union, shall be guilty of Union Busting, as defined:
Union Busting
Employers who take action to disrupt or engage in conduct to dismantle a union.
Per Offence: $2000 Fine
Juniperfig's actions meet the criteria for union busting in the first clause, as an employee who was in a union was terminated under their stead. Juniperfig's actions also meet the definition for union busting, as a union member being terminated from the workplace they are attempting to unionize in disrupts that union. Therefore, luca's firing was illegal in regards to union busting as well.
3. The Plaintiff is asking for $50,000 in punitive damages as the conduct by xDarkkex and juniperfig during this whole ordeal was outrageous.
4. The Plaintiff is asking for $100,000 in consequential damages in conjunction with the punitive damages as they missed out on being able to host events during summer. Summer is the most active period of the server, and the time when the Plaintiff is most free. They won't get to experience hosting events during summer vacation for a whole year, which is an immense amount of time for DemocracyCraft.
IV. PRAYER FOR RELIEF
The Plaintiff seeks the following from the Defendant:
1. Rehiring of lucaaasserole to Event Manager.
2. $50,000 in punitive damages.
3. $100,000 in consequential damages for the Loss of Enjoyment in Redmont, as the Plaintiff was unable to host events during a peak time for them (summer).
WITNESSES
juniperfig
xDarkkex
lucaaasserole
Moyfr
By making this submission, I agree I understand the penalties of lying in court and the fact that I am subject to perjury should I knowingly make a false statement in court.
DATED: This 16th day of August 2025.
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