Welcome to the FREDWallaceLawsuitInfo.com website.

Those of us who own FRED have thus far refrained from public comment about the lawsuit we filed against Martin Wallace on July 20, 2009. However, we have now reached the point where we can no longer be silent. We can no longer tolerate the fact that Martin Wallace can behave as he has, for both the past seven weeks with regard to the lawsuit, and for the past four years with regard to the contract with Eagle that he signed in 2005, and yet continue to get significant sympathy while FRED continues to get significant backlash.

We have believed for some time now that an amicable agreement, expeditiously reached, would be in everyone’s best interest. And yet all overtures we make to Wallace, and every offer of settlement we propose, continue to be met with unreasonable responses, inappropriate public disclosures and/or false statements.

We hope the greater game-playing community will be able to tell, after reading all of the documents we have posted herein, that we are and always have been willing to reach a reasonable settlement of our differences with Martin Wallace.

FRED remains willing to submit to mediation, or arbitration, though Wallace has soundly rejected this idea. Perhaps an “impartial” panel (somehow nominated and selected from BGG and BGN readers) could be involved in that mediation? Many of you certainly seem to have outspoken opinions about the issues. It is quite obvious that trying to work through the legal/court system will prove to be so expensive and time-consuming that everyone will lose (except the lawyers). Yet nothing else to date has managed to get Martin Wallace’s attention focused on resolving the issues.

We are open to your reasonable and creative ideas as to how to proceed. If you have questions or comments, please send them to fredwallacelawsuitinfo@freddistribution.com.

Here is a summary of the Information/Documents that are on this site:

1. November 2004 - April, 2005 -- Emails between Glenn Drover and Martin Wallace leading up to and negotiating the Wallace/Eagle/Drover 3/7/05 Agreement (including the 3/4/05 Drover email attaching the 3/7/05 Agreement and a copy of that Agreement/Attachment).
   
   
2. May, 2005 -- Emails establishing that Wallace knew he could no longer reproduce an Age of Steam variant without Eagle’s consent.
   
   
3. September - November, 2006 -- Emails between Wallace/Drover/Funagain establishing Wallace’s awareness and agreement that he owed a “third game” to Funagain.
   
   
4. Early 2009 -- Emails between FRED (Soued and Blume) and Wallace when “issues” began to surface.
   
   
5. May - July, 2009 -- Same as above as issues got more heated.
   
   
6. 2009-07-20: Filed Complaint -- July 20, 2009 recorded Complaint of FRED vs. Martin Wallace.
   
   
7. September 2009 -- Current Questions and Settlement “Proposals” and an appeal to the BGG/BGN game community.

Note: To make it as easy as possible to follow whose “voice” is speaking throughout these documents, we have tried to follow this convention: Martin Wallace’s comments and emails are in black; FRED’s comments and emails are in purple; Glenn Drover’s comments and emails are in blue; and others are in red.