Item 8.01 Other Events.
On September 23, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District
of Louisiana (the "Louisiana Court") under Civil Action No. 2:17-cv-819-B(3)
(the "Litigation") granted the defendants' Motion to Enforce the settlement
agreement entered into between the Company and the defendants, Daniel J.
Schreiber and the Daniel J. Schreiber Living Trust - Dtd 2/08/95 (collectively
referred to herein as "Schreiber"). The Louisiana Court ordered the Company to
pay Schreiber the amount of $101,490.27, representing primarily its calculation
of the contractual interest, of 18% per annum, accrued on the outstanding
principal balance of the two promissory notes issued pursuant to the settlement
agreement until they were paid, plus certain costs incurred to that date.
The Company believes the Louisiana Court's September 23, 2021 ruling is in
error, and on October 15, 2021, the Company filed a Motion for Reconsideration
asking the Louisiana Court to reconsider its ruling.
On November 17, 2021, the Company posted a supersedeas bond, pursuant to an
order of the Louisiana Court granting the Company's motion to set that bond and
stay judgment, in the amount of $121,804.44 from available working capital to
stay the enforcement of the Louisiana Court's September 23, 2021 judgment.
On January 5, 2022, the Louisiana Court denied the Company's October 15, 2021
Motion to Reconsider. The next day the Louisiana Court granted in part a motion
of Schreiber to award Schreiber an amount equal to the reasonable attorneys'
fees and costs incurred in pursuing the motion to enforce the settlement
agreement; the Louisiana Court awarded Schreiber these expenses but in a lesser
amount than moved for, entering a second judgment dated January 6, 2022 awarding
Schreiber the amount of $85,035.64.
On February 8, 2022, the Louisiana Court granted the Company's motion to post a
cash bond in the amount of $102,050.82 to stay enforcement of this second
judgment of January 6, 2022.
The Company believes both of the Louisiana Court's rulings and judgments were in
error, so on February 2, 2022, the Company filed a notice of appeal to appeal
the Louisiana Court's rulings and judgments to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
On February 16, 2022, the parties to the Litigation, RedHawk and Schreiber,
entered into a Settlement Agreement and Release ("Release") to resolve all
issues arising out of the subject matter of the Litigation.
In consideration of the mutual promises, covenants and conditions contained in
the Release, the parties entered into the Release, agreeing that Redhawk would
pay Schreiber $150,000 consisting of a wire transfer from RedHawk of $28,195.56
and jointly filing a motion, with Schreiber's legal counsel, to release to
Schreiber the $121,804.44 previously deposited in the registry of the Louisiana
Court as a supersedeas bond. Schreiber agreed to accept this amount in
compromise as payment in full of its outstanding claims arising from the subject
matter of its motion to enforce. RedHawk and Schreiber granted each other broad
mutual releases of all claims arising from the subject matter of the original
underlying lawsuit filed by RedHawk against Schreiber or Schreiber's motion to
enforce the settlement agreement.
Upon the parties' execution of the Release, RedHawk made the wire transfer
payment to Schreiber, care of its legal counsel, from available working capital,
and authorized legal counsel to file the aforementioned joint motion - to
dismiss the Litigation with prejudice and to release the supersedeas bond amount
to Schreiber. Assuming the Louisiana Court grants this motion and dismisses the
Litigation with prejudice, that should conclude this proceeding, and the
disputes underlying it, with finality.
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