LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: From time to time, we may become involved in various
−Removed: lawsuits and legal proceedings, which arise in the ordinary course of business.
−Removed: Litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and an
−Removed: adverse result in these or other matters may arise from time to time that may harm our business.
−Removed: Except as set forth below, we are currently
−Removed: not aware of any such legal proceedings or claims that will have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: financial condition or operating results.
−Removed: Power Up Lending Group, Ltd.
−Removed: On October 11, 2019, Power Up Lending Group, Ltd.
−Removed: (“Power Up”) filed a complaint against the Company and Isaac Dietrich, an officer and director of the Company, in the Supreme
−Removed: Court of the State of New York, County of Nassau.
−Removed: The complaint alleges, among other things, (i) the occurrence of events of default in
−Removed: certain notes (the “Power Up Notes”) issued by the Company to Power Up, (ii) misrepresentations by the Company including,
−Removed: but not limited to, with respect to the Company’s obligation to timely file its required reports with the SEC and (iii) lost profits
−Removed: as a result of the Company’s failure to convert the Power Up Notes in accordance with the terms thereof.
−Removed: In addition, the complaint
−Removed: alleges, among other things, that Mr.
−Removed: Dietrich took affirmative steps to deliberately cause the Company to breach its financial obligations.
−Removed: As a result of the foregoing, Power Up has requested:
−Removed: (i) the greater of $312,000 and the “parity value”
−Removed: as such term is defined
−Removed: in the Power Up Notes together with $2,000 per day until the Company issues shares upon conversion of the Power Up Notes together with
−Removed: applicable interest thereon;
−Removed: (ii) $165,000 as a result of the misrepresentations;
−Removed: (iii) an amount of lost profits to be determined by
−Removed: the court, but in no event less than $312,000;
−Removed: (iv) $312,000 as against Mr.
−Removed: (v) an award for reasonable legal fees and costs
−Removed: of litigation;
−Removed: (vi) a judgment awarding specific performance under the Power Up Notes;
−Removed: and (vii) the costs and disbursement of the action,
−Removed: pre-judgment interest, default interest and such other further relief as the court deems proper.
−Removed: On August 24, 2020, the Supreme Court
−Removed: of the State of New York, County of Nassau adjourned a hearing on Power Up’s motion for default judgment with respect to the complaint
−Removed: filed by Power Up on October 11, 2019, against the Company and Mr.
−Removed: Dietrich until September 14, 2020.
−Removed: On September 14, 2020, Power-Up filed a motion
−Removed: for leave to enter a default judgment against the Company and Mr.
−Removed: Dietrich, alleging that the defendants failed to appear and did not
−Removed: establish a meritorious defense to the claims made or a reasonable excuse for the delay in interposing their answer.
−Removed: On February 9, 2021,
−Removed: a motion for default judgment was granted and the default judgment in the total amount of $350,551.10 was entered against the Company
−Removed: Dietrich jointly and severally.
−Removed: Sheppard Mullin’s Demand for Arbitration
−Removed: On December 1, 2020, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter
−Removed: & Hampton LLP (“Sheppard Mullin”), the Company’s former securities counsel, filed a demand for arbitration at JAMS
−Removed: in New York, New York against the Company, alleging the Company’s breach of an engagement agreement dated January 4, 2018, and a
−Removed: failure of the Company to pay $487,390.73 of outstanding legal fees to Sheppard Mullin.
−Removed: Sheppard Mullin seeks to collect the entirety
−Removed: of the amount owed by the Company in accordance with said engagement agreement.
−Removed: Rother Investments’
−Removed: On October 28, 2020, Rother Investments, LLC (“Rother
−Removed: Investments”) filed a complaint in the District Court of 419th Judicial District, Travis County, Texas against the Company, alleging the
−Removed: Company’s default under a certain promissory note (the “Rother Investments Note”) in payment of the outstanding principal
−Removed: amount and interest under the Note, as described in the complaint.
−Removed: Rother Investments seeks to collect the amount of $124,750.00 as of
−Removed: the date of the complaint with late fees continuing to accrue on a daily basis, monetary relief of over $100,000 but not more than $200,000.00
−Removed: pursuant to Tex.
−Removed: 47(c)(3), court’s costs and attorney’s fees, pre-judgment and post-judgment interest, and such
−Removed: other relief as the court deems appropriate.
−Removed: Trawick’s Complaint
−Removed: On or about January 25, 2021, Travis Trawick (“Trawick”)
−Removed: filed a complaint against the Company and Isaac Dietrich, an officer and director of the Company, in the Circuit Court for the City of Virginia Beach,
−Removed: Virginia, asserting the Company’s failure to remit payments under the certain promissory note, as subsequently amended and
−Removed: modified, and ancillary documents thereto (collectively, the “Note”), and Mr.
−Removed: Dietrich’s failure to fulfill its obligations,
−Removed: as the guarantor, under the Note.
−Removed: Trawick demands a judgment in his favor in the amount exceeding $130,336.15, the exact amount to be
−Removed: proven at trial including pre and post-judgment interest, reasonable attorneys’
−Removed: fees, court costs, other taxable costs, and such
−Removed: other relief as the court deems appropriate.
+Added: December 1, 2020, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (“Sheppard Mullin”), the Company’s former securities
+Added: counsel, filed a demand for arbitration at JAMS in New York, New York against the Company, alleging the Company’s breach of an
+Added: engagement agreement dated January 4, 2018, and a failure of the Company to pay $487,390.73 of outstanding legal fees to Sheppard Mullin.
+Added: Sheppard Mullin was awarded $459,250.88 in unpaid legal fees, disbursements and interest on June 25, 2021.
+Added: A judgement confirming the
+Added: arbitration award was entered on September 8, 2021 in the Federal District Court located in Denver, Colorado.
+Added: September 23, 2021, the Company entered into a Resolution Agreement and Release (the “Resolution Agreement”) with Sheppard
+Added: Mullin concerning the $459,250.88 judgement entered against the Company.
+Added: Under the terms of the Resolution Agreement, the Company was
+Added: required to make a $25,000 initial payment by September 30, 2021 and is required to make $15,000 monthly payments from October 2021 to
+Added: January 2023 with a final $10,000 payment due in February 2023.
+Added: The Company has made the monthly payments due for September 2021 to March
+Added: are unable to estimate a reasonably possible loss or range of loss, if any, that may result from these matters.
+Added: time to time, we may be involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of our business.
+Added: We investigate these claims as
+Added: they arise and accrue estimates for resolution of legal and other contingencies when losses are probable and estimable.
+Added: Regardless of
+Added: outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us due to defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, negative
+Added: publicity and reputational harm, and other factors.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
−Removed: Not applicable.
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