The Judge Finally Ruled & the Door Just Opened

For months, this case has been unfolding across multiple forums. Arbitration. Federal court. Agency filings. Whistleblower submissions. Every step has revealed one thing: the deeper the structure goes, the harder the fight becomes, and the more intentional the obstruction appears.

Today, the judge issued her ruling. And while some people expected a clean “win” or “loss,” what actually happened was something very different. Something far more important.

The Court ruled that only DRVM, the small shell company that appeared on my paystubs, can be forced into arbitration. None of the parent companies. None of the upstream entities. None of the people controlling the structure behind the scenes.

And that may be the most significant development yet.

What This Really Means

For anyone following the case closely, this ruling confirms what I’ve been saying from the beginning:

The shell company was always designed to be the shield.

The parent companies were always designed to be protected.

And arbitration was always the trap.

If I had filed this case first in federal court a year ago, before arbitration ever started, the argument would have been:

“All parties are bound by the arbitration agreement. Everything must go to arbitration.”

The entire case — including the largest corporate actors, would have been buried in private arbitration. They would’ve argued to actually be bound to arbitration.

But that’s not what happened.

Instead, over ten months:

• they fought the AI-qualified arbitrator

• they agreed to qualifications then reversed

• they misrepresented the parties

• they hid information from agencies

• they tried to shrink the case down to a wage issue

• they created delay after delay

• they triggered multiple defaults

• they forced the issue into federal court

• they argued only “their shell” belonged in arbitration

And now, because of their own arguments, they can no longer say the parent companies are bound by the arbitration agreement.

The door is open.

The Case Is Now Split Into Multiple Battlefields

This is no longer a one-forum dispute.

It is now moving forward on three separate tracks:

1. Arbitration — only with the shell entity

They wanted it that way, they argued for it, and the Court signed off on it.

Now they must defend their actions in the private forum they insisted on, but only for the narrow wage dispute they tried to shrink everything down to.

2. Department of Labor whistleblower retaliation

This forum moves much faster.

Deadlines. Disclosures. A judge who sees retaliation for what it is.

This part of the case is just beginning.

3. Federal Court — the most serious arena

Because they argued that only DRVM is bound by arbitration, every upstream entity is now exposed to federal litigation.

For the first time since this began, a direct path exists to hold the controlling actors accountable in a public forum, under public scrutiny, with discovery tools, subpoenas, and judicial oversight.

This was not possible ten months ago.

It is possible today.

Why the Timeline Makes Sense

People ask why this has taken almost a year.

The answer is simple:

You cannot break open a billion-dollar structure overnight.

You cannot expose a nationwide shell network in a single filing.

You cannot outmaneuver multinational corporate counsel in one step.

Every roadblock was part of the process.

Every contradiction gave me leverage.

Every default exposed more concealment.

Every forum revealed a new story.

Every delay clarified who was controlling what.

Every filing forced them into a position they didn’t want to be in.

Now we have:

• arbitration continuing
• DOL retaliation ongoing
• whistleblower filings active
• SEC and IRS notified
• and federal court finally available for the real case

This is exactly the point we needed to reach.

What Comes Next

I won’t be releasing the details of what comes next.

Not the names.

Not the structure.

Not the legal theories.

Not the filings.

Just know this:

They can no longer hide behind the arbitration agreement.

They can no longer shrink this down to wages.

They can no longer pretend the parent companies are off-limits.

They can no longer claim they are protected by the structure they built.

What happened today wasn’t an ending.

It was the beginning of the most important phase of the entire case.

One More Thing

Despite delaying for ten months,

despite contradicting themselves across forums,

despite hiding upstream parties the entire time,

the moment the judge issued her ruling, Fisher Phillips immediately emailed JAMS to announce “we won” and that “everyone else is dismissed.”

But what they left out is the most important part:

Everyone upstream can now be sued in federal court.

This proves everything.

They are still concealing.

Still misleading.

Still manipulating every forum we are in.

It’s just finally moving into the arena where the truth can’t be hidden anymore.

And in the end, they got exactly what they fought for. They wanted arbitration limited to DRVM. They wanted a stacked, private forum with no public oversight. They can have that. Arbitration is always the forum that they control. This was all about making it a public record. If they believe that’s a victory, they’re welcome to it. Because while they celebrate “winning” the smallest, narrowest piece of this case, they handed me the part that matters: a federal lawsuit against the real actors, a DOL retaliation case that moves fast, active IRS and SEC whistleblower filings, and a public record that they cannot hide from. They spent ten months fighting to avoid being compelled into arbitration, and they succeeded. But in doing so, they opened the exact path I needed. They protected the shell. They exposed the network. They locked themselves into their own position. And they gave me the fight I wanted all along.