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Public statement source · YT887
Free Range is THE FUTURE
This is the relationship at the centre of dispute DSP020 stated in explicit legal-ish terms — "my business partner" — and tied by name to "Frankie's free-range meat". disputes.csv describes DSP020 as "the Frankie's Free Range Meat arbitration dispute, naming Adam Starowicz, the American Arbitration Association and Jeffrey Davis"; aliases.csv holds Adam Starowicz → D0003, and lawsuits.csv holds C090 Frank Tufano v. Adam Starowicz (filed 2022-12-20, Closed). This statement is published 1,344 days before C090 was filed (2019-04-16 → 2022-12-20, differenced in code). It also dates the launch: "we recently launched". ⚠ Only the first name is spoken; the surname never appears in clean form anywhere in the track (see the next quote). ⚠ This is scripted pitch copy, not a spontaneous statement, and the word "partner" in marketing copy is not evidence of a legal partnership. Offered as an adjacency to verify against the arbitration record, not as a finding about the parties' legal relationship. No court, case, filing, lawyer or dispute is named anywhere in this video. Possible case/dispute link: DSP020 / C090 — tentative, unconfirmed; first name plus business name only.
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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what's going on guys I'm here with my business partner Adam for any of you unfamiliar we recently launched Frankie's free-range meat our goal to bring you high quality nutrient-dense animal foods
This is the relationship at the centre of dispute DSP020 stated in explicit legal-ish terms — "my business partner" — and tied by name to "Frankie's free-range meat". disputes.csv describes DSP020 as "the Frankie's Free Range Meat arbitration dispute, naming Adam Starowicz, the American Arbitration Association and Jeffrey Davis"; aliases.csv holds Adam Starowicz → D0003, and lawsuits.csv holds C090 Frank Tufano v. Adam Starowicz (filed 2022-12-20, Closed). This statement is published 1,344 days before C090 was filed (2019-04-16 → 2022-12-20, differenced in code). It also dates the launch: "we recently launched". ⚠ Only the first name is spoken; the surname never appears in clean form anywhere in the track (see the next quote). ⚠ This is scripted pitch copy, not a spontaneous statement, and the word "partner" in marketing copy is not evidence of a legal partnership. Offered as an adjacency to verify against the arbitration record, not as a finding about the parties' legal relationship. No court, case, filing, lawyer or dispute is named anywhere in this video. Possible case/dispute link: DSP020 / C090 — tentative, unconfirmed; first name plus business name only.
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50710/2022 — Frank Tufano v. Adam StarowiczTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: [0:00]–[0:14] — "my business partner Adam" — the partnership stated in terms, at launch.