Kaiserin_
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Case Filing
IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
CIVIL ACTION
YeetGlazer
Plaintiff
v.
Commonwealth of Redmont
Defendant
COMPLAINT
The Plaintiff complains against the Defendant as follows:
On the 25th of February, the Department of Commerce made a severe mistake. It unlawfully shut down a privately formed auction under false pretenses, not only denying bidders the right to fair competition, but also denying the auctioneer the ability to sell his property at its actual value. Through a gross misapplication of its own rules, the Department decided that if one person outbid themselves multiple times in a property auction, it would result in an instant termination of the auction and a sale of the property to that very person. Uniform application of this rule - which had, at the time, zero backing law-wise or policy-wise - would be utterly disastrous for the property market, effectively allowing anyone to instantly win an auction simply by upping their own bid more than once. This action by the Department of Commerce caused some outcry at the time, and for good reason - it represented both a serious misstep and a gross overreach of the Department's power, and went directly against the doctrine of the duty of care that binds our Executive departments. Even if there existed a Departmental policy at the time against raising one's own bid, the proper application of this rule would have been to restart the auction from the last valid bid, a course of action that was apparently given no thought by the Department of Commerce. Thus, in the interest of both the bidders that were wronged and of the public at large who deserves an Executive branch that is held accountable for its actions, the Plaintiff files this civil action in hopes to rectify the outrageous actions taken by the Department on that day.
I. PARTIES
1. YeetGlazer
2. Commonwealth of Redmont
3. Department of Commerce
II. FACTS
1. At 10:04 AM EST On the 25th of February, 2025, EpicFought posted a property auction for the plot c345 with a starting bid of $35,000, a minimum increase of $1,000, and an end time of “24 hours after last bid.” The auction was not formed in bad faith.
2. The auction proceeded normally until 7:38 AM EST on the 26th, when bidder GnomeWhisperer increased his own earlier bid of $81,000 to $82,000 without any other bids being made in between. At 8:11 AM EST, he further increased it to $83,000, and then to $84,000 at 9:09 AM EST. During this period, no bids were made by others.
3. YeetGlazer placed a bid on the property of $85,000 at 4:05 PM EST that day, 7 hours after the last bid at the time. GnomeWhisperer and YeetGlazer continued bidding against one another. The last bid was made at 4:46 PM EST on the 27th of February, and was from GnomeWhisperer at a bid of $88,000.
4. At 11:37 PM EST on the 27th, just under 5 hours after the last bid, AbsInf, acting under his authority as a member of the Department of Commerce, declared that GnomeWhisperer’s bid of $81,000 was the “last valid bid”, and instructed EpicFought to sell the property to GnomeWhisperer for that amount. The property was sold in this way and the auction was closed without allowing any further bids.
5. AbsInf communicated with Commerce Secretary xSyncx before canceling the auction, but AbsInf did not properly communicate the situation to the Secretary, leading to miscommunication that led him to believe that he was in the right (P-008, P-010). xSyncx's request for a link to the auction and further information regarding it was entirely ignored by AbsInf, meaning that AbsInf effectively lied by omission and used the Secretary's misinformed response as grounds to terminate the auction.
III. CLAIMS FOR RELIEF
1. At the time of the auction for c345, there existed no provision per the Department of Commerce that bidders could not raise their own bid. Though a provision was later added on March 16th (P-012), the auction was forcefully ended on February 27th. A rule change in mid-March does not retroactively justify actions taken in February.
2. The Auction Rules (found in the Real Estate channel on the DemocracyCraft Discord server) as of March 7th stated “The DOC/DCT reserves the right to terminate an auction at anytime for whatever reason… Should they determine that the auction is formed in bad faith/improperly conducted” (P-011). This section has since been changed without any public announcement, but was in effect when the auction occurred. This clause clearly granted discretion to the Department of Commerce to close an auction only when it was formed in bad faith or improperly conducted, and the Department's ethical and legal responsibility is to only utilize this discretion when it is properly warranted.
3. The Department of Commerce has a duty of care to the citizens of Redmont to uphold fair and consistent conduct in relation to auctions that is both in line with its own regulations and with the principles that govern our nation. By incorrectly declaring the bid of $81,000 by GnomeWhisperer as the last valid bid and not giving bidders the opportunity to continue bidding, the Department violated both their own guidelines and the legitimate expectation of bidders that auctions will not be shut down erroneously.
IV. PRAYER FOR RELIEF
The Plaintiff seeks the following from the Defendant:
1. $45,000 in punitive damages to discourage the defendant from violating its own guidelines and denying citizens the ability to participate fairly in auctions.
2. $12,000 in legal fees, or 30% of the value of the case, as outlined in §9.2.c the Legal Damages Act.
V. EVIDENCE
Timeline of the auction, in chronological order:
Witness List:
xSyncx
GnomeWhisperer
EpicFought
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 fifth day of April, 2025
