Deucerthorn

It is hard to accurately calculate the total amount Acerthorn thinks he’s owed in damages, other than to quote his own words in a complaint, “you might want to sit down for this”.

Part of the problem is his habit of launching multiple suits with overlapping claims, and suits claiming as damages the amount he surely would have won had someone not prevented him from filing one of his “technically perfect” appeals. He also files duplicative suits against defendants for the amount he surely would have won had they not raised some absurd procedural objection in another case. With interest for every day it was delayed until the inevitable (but somehow always denied) ruling overriding the delay.

Another issue is cases filed in one venue, dismissed, and re-filed elsewhere. Then you have duplicative claims, sums which don’t diminish when most of the claims are struck down by an appeals court, and so on.

And then, of course, there’s the “shadow docket” – cases that do not appear, or where the claim cannot be viewed, because he has been restricted a vexatious litigant in three federal districts, the state of Arkansas, and the 8th Circuit. Obviously the amount claimed isn’t visible for those.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Acerthorn’s claims for damages are plucked out of his ass, but they are totes carefully calculated.

Case	Amount claimed
Stebbins v. Mid States Promotions (3:10-cv-03041)	$306,000,000.00
Stebbins v. University of Arkansas (5:10-cv-05125)	$348,000.00
Stebbins v. Richardson (6:10-cv-03305)	$500,000.00
Stebbins v. Full Sail University (3:10-cv-03072)	$306,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (3:10-cv-03086)	$300,000.00
Stebbins v. Full Sail University (3:10-cv-03090)	$57,000.00
Stebbins v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (3:10-cv-03123)	$660,000,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Legal Aid of Arkansas (3:11-cv-03057)	$737,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Google, Inc. (5:11-cv-03876)	$500,000,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Microsoft Inc (2:11-cv-01362)	$1,500,000,000,000.00
Stebbins v. State of Texas (3:11-cv-02227)	$5,000,000,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Harp & Associates Real Estate Services (3:11-cv-03078)	$50,000.00
Stebbins v. Boone County, Arkansas (3:12-cv-03022)	$11,616,000.00
David A. Stebbins v. David D. Stebbins (Ark. 05CV-12-85)	$11,000,000.00
David Stebbins v. The Hotel Seville (05CV-12-102)	$6,136,000.00
Stebbins v. Bradford (3:12-cv-03131)	$111,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Stebbins (3:12-cv-03130)	$598,950.00
Stebbins v. Steen (4:12-cv-00704)	$1,055,078,034,000.00
Stebbins v. Motel 6 Operating LLC (72CV-12-3034)	$1,100.00
Stebbins v. United States (1:12-cv-02029)	$1,002,200,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Watkins (3:13-cv-03068)	$11,698,786.00
David Stebbins v. David Dixon (Legal Aid of Arkansas) (72CV-13-1475)	$40,470,000.00
Stebbins v. Arkansas, State of (4:14-cv-00227)	$2,505,033,757,400.00
Stebbins v. EduCap, Inc. (1:14-cv-00961)	$10,250,005.50
Stebbins v. United States (1:14-cv-01267)	$16,560,346.02
David A. Stebbins v. Geoff Thompson, Jason Day, et. Al. (Ark. 05CV-15-38)	$147,448,027.71
Stebbins v. Gay (4:15-cv-00332)	$26,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Hannah (4:15-cv-00436)	$35,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Arkansas, State of (4:16-cv-00545)	$160,541.13
Stebbins v. Arkansas, State of (4:16-cv-00638)	$171,064,027.71
Stebbins v. Arkansas, State of (3:17-cv-03016)	$11,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Hixson (4:17-cv-00711)	$3,013,700.00
Stebbins v. Polano (4:21-cv-04184)	$1,300,000.00
Stebbins v. Alphabet Inc. (4:22-cv-00546)	$2,100,000.00
David A. Stebbins v. CMDR ImperialSalt (8:24-cv-01486)	$150,000.00
Stebbins v. Google LLC (3:23-cv-00322)	$150,000.00
Stebbins v. Redfield (3:23-cv-00321)	$1,000,000.00
Stebbins v. Garcia Baz (3:24-cv-00398)	$12,950,000.00
Stebbins v. Moon (2:24-cv-00140)	$900,000.00
Stebbins v. Doe (4:24-mc-80179)	$2,750,000.00
Stebbins v. Rumble Inc. (1:24-cv-01174)	$900,000.00
Stebbins v. Doe (4:25-cv-04499)	$2,750,000.00

David Anthony Stebbins is a YouTube / Twitch streamer who uses the handle Acerthorn. He has Asperger’s, which he believes qualifies him as disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. The principal effect of this disorder is to make him, in his own words, “tactless”. By tactless, he means prone to foul-mouthed tirades against anyone he perceives as failing to deliver what he is entitled to, and also outbursts of violent behavior.

The courts have been singularly unsympathetic to this, restricting him from filing in at least one state court, three federal districts and one appellate circuit. Despite this manifestly unfair treatment, due entirely to personal animus against him and not in the least to do with his stellar win/loss rate, he has managed to lodge 62 cases plus 68 appeals, including six petitions to the Supreme Court of the United States.

In the lower courts he has so far lost one case at trial, settled two for a fraction of the money demanded, and four are still ongoing. The balance have been dismissed. Of a total of $12,224,300,013,884.10 he has demanded, he has thus managed to take home $1,800 in one case – less $1,500 he was sanctioned for his egregious behavior post-settlement – and $47.92 in another. So, after at least 15 years of near-continuous pro-se litigation, he is up $347.92, when the first defendant finally finishes paying.

Among the milestone events in his legal career are:

• Declared a vexatious litigant in the Eastern District of Arkansas
• Restricted from filing mandamus petitions in the 8^th Circuit without full payment of the appellate fee
• Banned from filing any cause of action in Boone County, Arkansas, as a pro-se litigant
• Banned from filing cases in the Western District of Arkansas as an end-run around his filing restrictions in the Eastern District
• Classified as a vexatious litigant in the Northern District of California

There are a number of arcs to his checkered legal history.

• Miscellaneous state cases, not all of which can be found online, but including at least one prosecution for expired tags, a trivial matter which he nonetheless managed to spin out into a series of epic (in his mind) legal battles. All of which he lost.
• Employment litigation, consisting primarily of suing people for either firing him or (more usually) not employing him. This is due to his disability, not his inability to interact normally with humans. Obviously.
• Litigation against his parents – the single longest-running saga. In September 2009 (aged 21) he signed a contract with his parents guaranteeing him “100% of living expenses” and “full internet access” when they weren’t using it. That worked out exactly as well as could be expected…
• Student loan default, from an August 2007 loan and initial disbursement from EduCap.
• Eviction. Whish was 100% due to his disability and not the fact that his apartment was insanitary and had dangerous electrical appliances. He has never admitted on YouTube to having cockroaches in his room. Apart from that one time.
• University enrollment, or perhaps more accurately, lack of enrollment. Which is 100% due to bias on the part of universities, and not at all due to his propensity for foul-mouthed and violent outbursts in response to the most trivial frustration.
• Bogus arbitration claims against several defendants, using the well-known legal gambit of “if you don’t respond, then you accept the contract and I can arbitrate against you”. He played this game so successfully that one of the defendants turned out to be an arbitration mill that was nonetheless too ethical to take his business.
• The Accidental Livestream which brought him to greater prominence on the internet, thanks to his spectacularly inflated estimation of the value of this stream, and the fact that it contained no creative elements at all, being (entirely aptly) compared with he “monkey selfie”.
• Copyright and libelslander cases against a number of reaction videos which mercilessly mock his work. This is deeply serious stuff, and his demands include that his critics” be ordered to publicly correct the statements [they] made about me in such a way that ensures that my reputation is fully restored. [They] should not be required simply to tell everyone that [they were] wrong, but to actually convince them, to the point where literally everyone on Earth, with no exceptions, has either never heard of this controversy in the first place, or they must subjectively believe that I am the blameless victim of harassment, doxxing, and defamation (and that [they] willingly and maliciously participated in same), and absolutely nothing else.” Exactly the kind of relief courts love to grant in the US.

Stebbins, who should by rights be the richest man on earth by a factor of nearly 30, but for the interference of judges, lawyers, and a guy he once sued who was later his jailer, lives in a one-room subdivision in Harrison, Arkansas, convenient to the courthouse where he is no longer permitted to file his pro-se lawsuits.

Four cases remain live, in some of which he has made a non-frivolous claim of infringement in respect of ten work-for-hire compositions he managed to blag someone to produce. The damages claimed for these four combined are a modest $17/6 million, easily within the reach of three random YouTubers and the guy who runs Kiwi Farms. Suing Joshua Moon when your address is posted on public filings may not be the smartest thing our hero has ever done. Kiwi Farms are proud of the fact that they absolutely will fuck with you. Stebbins has a history of suicidal ideation, and Kiwi Farms has hounded three people to death so far. Again, they are proud of this.