The Plaintiffs in the Kajan Johnson lawsuit filed an Order to Show Cause compelling Dominance MMA to provide reason why it has yet to comply with an August 2025 order in which it had to turn over information which includes texts from the phones of employees including Ali Abdelaziz.
Dominance MMA was served a third-party subpoena but did not comply. A court-order was issued and according to the court filing the attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants attempted to coordinate the discovery including the scope of the information to be produced, a vendor to produce them and other administrative issues surround the discovery. However, according to the filing, there was a “revolt”” at Dominance and Abdelaziz refused “to provide responsive documents and communications, citing confidentiality concerns, unspecified social media posts “disparaging” Dominance, and general mistrust of patients.”
Payout Perspective:
It’s called a “Show Cause” hearing because the Plaintiffs are asking Dominance to show why they have disobeyed the court order allowing discovery. Reading between the lines of the brief it sounds like that the attorneys for Dominance believed that an agreement was in place and then attempted to stall based on the length in time between correspondence between the parties. It sounds like that Abdelaziz realized the information that they would have to submit to the Plaintiffs and it could be damaging for a variety of reasons. Perhaps, legal, perhaps reputation. But whatever it might be backing out of an agreement, let alone court order, at the last second is a bad look. At some point he will have to produce documents. We will see how this plays out and if a deal can be done before the hearing.
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