Welcome!

By registering with us, you'll be able to discuss, share and private message with other members of CityRP.

SignUp Now!

Case: Pending Luke Thegreatfired vs Lysander Lyon

RandomIntruder

Administrator
Staff member
Staff
RandomIntruder
RandomIntruder
Citizen
Joined
Jun 23, 2024
Messages
167
Luke Thegreatfired, Plaintiff

v.

Lysander Lyon, Defendant


Civil Complaint:

On December 15th, 2025, the Defendant, then an MP in parliament, posted the “Banking Foundations Act” on the forums https://cityrp.org/threads/banking-foundations-act.3026/.

In this post, he claimed to be the sole author of the bill, which has many similarities to Plaintiff’s original bill with Death Thegreatfire nee Fired, https://cityrp.org/threads/rebuild-banking-act.2402/.

This is a violation of the Establish Copyright Protections Act, and the Defendant is entitled to compensation.

Parties:

Luke Thegreatfired
Lysander Lyon

Factual Allegations:

1. Lysander Lyon posted the “Banking Foundations Act” on the 15th of December 2025.
2. Luke Thegreatfired posted the “Rebuild Banking Act” on July 27th, 2025.
3. Lysander Lyon is credited as the only author of the “Banking Foundations Act.”

Legal Claims:

In section 4 of the Establish Copyright Protections Act, it states “all published bills and otherwise works published or done in association with the Parliament of Azalea, will automatically be transferred into the ownership of the parliament under the the requirement that the original author is named, in all relevant documents pertaining and including the work.”

This establishes bills are automatically copyrighted and the authors must be directly named in documents that include the work, which the Banking Foundations Act does.

Prayer for Relief:​


1. $25,000 in compensation to the Defendant for violating the Defendant’s copyright.
2. The Defendant must be retroactively listed as a co-author of the Banking Foundations Act.
3. $20,000 in legal fees.


Verification:​

I, Random Intruder, hereby affirm that the allegations in the complaint AND all subsequent statements made in court are true and correct to the best of the plaintiff's knowledge, information, and belief and that any falsehoods may bring the penalty of perjury.

Evidence filing:​

Each section of the bill will be listed in green, besides the Short Title and Supersession sections for the Banking Foundations Act. The analogous section of the Rebuild Banking Act is shown in red. Sections from the Banking Foundations Act without analogous will be displayed in the default color.

2. Commercial Banks
(a) Commercial banks shall be required to submit to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, once per month, the following information:
(b) Once per month, they must submit a full information page as specified by the MEA containing at minimum the following information:
(i) A list of names of employees who have direct access to alter or withdraw from account balances, or the bank’s balance.
(b.i) Employees who are able to directly access and withdraw funds from both accounts and/or the balance of the bank.
(ii) The lawyer or law firm hired by the bank.
(b.ii) The current active retainer or lawyer on staff.
(iii) The amount of deposits, cash on hand, cash loaned out, and the end of month balance change.
(b.iii) Deposits, Cash on Hand, Cash on Loan and end of month balance change.
(b) If a commercial bank has deposits over $100,000, they are required to have a lawyer on staff or retainer.
(c) Commercial Banks over the deposits threshold of $100,000 must either have a lawyer on staff or on a retainer contract that is accessible by the MEA.
(i) If a commercial bank cannot meet this requirement, they may file for an exception with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, on a monthly basis. This does not have to be granted.
(ii) If a commercial bank required to have a lawyer on staff or retainer, does not, the Ministry of
Economic Affairs may order the bank to pause operations, or levy a fine, until they acquire one.
(c.i) Should a Commercial bank be unable to maintain or be able to gain a lawyer on staff or on retainer they may request an exemption, with a new exemption to be requested each month until a retainer or lawyer is found.

(c) Commercial banks may not own shares in a limited company.
(e.ii) Retail banks may only hold onto and purchase the shares of a given “stock” in a limited liability company in order to act as a broker between themselves and their clients and in order to create new financial tools or products in order to be re-sold directly to clients or on the general markets.
(d) Commercial banks functioning within a limited company setting should maintain separate accounts for other aspects of the company from the bank’s own accounts.
(e.v) Any retail bank that is part of a “group” or otherwise functioning in a wider limited liability company setting must maintain separate accounts (including holdings and surplus accounts) to the rest of the “group” or limited liability company in order to maintain compliance with the above categories.
(e) Commercial banks may offer banking accounts, certificates of deposit, loans, and credit cards.
(e) Retail Banks; Products offered at retail banks include checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), personal and mortgage loans, credit cards, and business banking accounts.
(f) If a commercial bank wishes to offer an additional financial service, such as an ETF, or invest in a financial tool (bonds, ETFs), they must apply for a specific waiver from the Bank of Azalea to offer or invest in that service.
(i) Financial services should generally be restricted to investment banks.

3. Investment Banks
(a) Investment banks must make a reasonable effort to keep the public aware they are not a commercial bank.
(a.i) All investment banks are required to publicly make it within reasonable powers to maintain the public informed that they are an investment bank not a Commercial Retail Bank.
(b) Investment banks may offer loans and investment accounts/funds. They also may create ETFs and bonds.
(c) Investment banks may not offer normal deposit accounts.
(d) Investment banks may create additional financial tools and services, but must apply for approval from the Bank of Azalea.
(i) The Bank of Azalea may issue blanket approvals, which will allow all investment banks to offer the financial tool/service, or specific approvals, which only authorize the requesting investment bank to offer the tool/service.
(ii) Narrow approvals may be done to allow the initial development of a service, or to keep higher-risk or capital-intensive tools limited to investment banks who are able to properly handle them, or for other reasons as determined by the Bank of Azalea.

4. Payment Service Providers
(a) Payment service providers (PSPs) shall exist to enable the processing of electronic payments, through non-Minecraft platforms.
(a) Payment Service Providers (PSP); is a third-party company that enables businesses to accept and process electronic payments in order to facilitate pure via discord payments.
(b) PSPs may not publish, sell, or otherwise share information that directly tracks, traces or identifies an individual or that individual’s transactions.
(a.ii) All PSP’s are required to maintain minimal tracking, tracing or otherwise direct access to see, access or manipulate transactions hosted via themselves or accounts held within the PSP directly. PSP’s may use limited information which they gather in order to create analytics and reports in order to sell to any financial institution as long as this information does not directly track, trace or give specific information as to an individual or small group of people (10 people at minimum).
(c) PSPs may be ordered to share client information by a court order.
(a.iv) All PSP’s will be exempt from sharing client information with any member of the government or public unless said information is required or court ordered to be publisied.
(d) PSPs may be owned by a registered limited company or directly by a financial institution.
(e) PSPs may not go public or hold assets unrelated to the PSP’s operations.

(a.v) PSP’s may either be owned by an group of individuals or directly by a financial institution, psp’s may not publicly sell shares in itself or hold any assets other than those directly related to its operations.

5. Credit Unions
(a) Credit unions are considered not-for-profit financial institutions.
(not directly quoted but credit unions were under the Non-profits section of the bill)
(b) Credit unions are financial institutions that provide the same products as a commercial bank.
(i) Credit unions face the exact same restrictions as commercial banks, as outlined in sections 2(a) through 2(e).

(b) Credit Union; Is a financial cooperative that provides and supplies all the equivalent products and services of a retail bank see (2.e), as such is required to conform to all relevant reporting duties of a Retail bank.
(c) Credit unions may not offer additional financial services. They may request the ability to invest in another financial tool, which would be granted or denied by the Bank of Azalea, but these requests should be subject to more significant scrutiny due to the not-for-profit nature of the institution.
(d) Credit unions may retain no more than 10% of profits earned in a month.
(e) Credit unions shall be structured so that each $1 deposited is treated as one share owned, with each share being allowed to cast a vote.
(b.iv) Credit Unions shall be mandatorily structured so that rather than directly “depositing” money, a citizen is buying a share in the Union, all shares within the union shall be valued at $1 and have 1 vote.
Credit unions with less than $200,000 in deposits shall elect a President, while credit unions with $200,000 or more in deposits shall elect a Board of Directors. This process, and credit unions more broadly, shall be subject to the Business Reform Act, and credit unions shall be treated as limited companies.
In association to this Credit Unions will be required to follow the rules set in relevant laws of a Limited Liability Company and shall have the same legal rights as one.

6. Activity and Reporting
(a) All financial institutions should have either an in-game location or a digital location (Discord server, website, etc.) for offering their financial products.
(c) All financial institutions other than PSP’s (5.a) and Financial Product Sub Companies (3.c) shall be required to show activity and either an in-game location offering financial products or maintain a website (/discord server) in which players may purchase, use or otherwise apply to use financial products.
(b) If a financial institution should receive a plot due to a defaulting customer, the institution may continue to hold that plot in exception to any plot cap for a maximum of two months. After the two month period, the institution will be in violation of the plot cap if they still have more plots than allowed.
(b) All financial institutions that receive a plot via a foreclosure upon liquidation of a delinquent mortgage holder, may maintain that plot in exception to any plot cap for a maximum of two months in which time the bank is expected to either sell this plot on or otherwise reduce their plot holdings in order to become within limitations once more.
(c) The Ministry of Economic Affairs may require more information than is outlined in Section 2(a) in the monthly or quarterly reports for a category of financial institution, or for all financial institutions.
(d) Investment banks and payment service providers are required to file their reports to the Ministry of Economic Affairs once per standard yearly quarter.

7. Taxation
(a) Financial institutions are exempt from normal business tax rates.
(a) All financial institutions shall be exempt from normal company taxation other than Financial Products/Sub-companies (5.d).
(b) Normal checkings/savings accounts shall have a 0.25% tax on each withdrawal.
(a.i) All financial institutions other than Financial Products/Sub-companies (5.c) shall have a mandatory 0.25% tax on every withdrawal.
(c) Financial institutions shall pay a 10% tax on net income earned per standard yearly quarter.
(a.ii) All financial institutions other than Financial Products/Sub-companies (5.c) and Payment Service Providers (5.a) shall have to pay a 10% tax on net income earned per standard yearly quarter.

8. Enforcement
(a) Failure to inform the Bank of Azalea and the Ministry of Economic Affairs of impending financial insolvency or time off high risk, with at least a week's notice, shall be considered a Criminal Fraud.
(b) Failure to inform the MEA of impending financial insolvency or time off high risk with at least a week's notice, shall be considered a Criminal Fraud and shall be punished as current criminal code demands.
(b) Failure to comply with information release requirements shall be punished with a $500 per day fine after a 7 day grace period has passed, starting on the 1st of each month (the first fine would occur on the 2nd).
(c) Failure to comply with monthly MEA information releases shall be punished with a $500 per day fine after a 7 day grace period has passed starting the 1st of each month.
(i) Notice to the financial institutions must have been given by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in advance of the end of the month, and fees may be waived by the Ministry for fair reasons.
(ii) Failure to comply for 31 days shall count as very significant noncompliance under the Seizure Act.
(iii) Should no action under the Seizure Act be taken, and the financial institution is still failing to comply after 60 days, the Ministry of Economic Affairs may seize and liquidate the institution, paying off depositors first, then creditors (whoever the institution owes money to), and then shareholders.
(e.iii) Liquidation; after 21 days over the leniency period has passed the financial institution shall be immediately liquidated with the government ceasing 15% of all assets followed by a standard liquidation process paying debtors, depositors, etc.
(c) Failure to comply with a Ministry of Economic Affairs or Bank of Azalea audit after the set timeline (at least 7 days) has passed shall incur a $1,000 per day fine until compliance is achieved.
(d) Failure to comply with an MEA or BOA audit (after at minimum 7 days have passed) will be given a $1,000 per day fine until compliance is achieved.
(i) Notice to the financial institutions must have been given by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in advance of the end of the month, and fees may be waived by the Ministry for fair reasons.
(ii) Failure to comply for 31 days shall count as very significant noncompliance under the Seizure Act.
(iii) Should no action under the Seizure Act be taken, and the financial institution is still failing to comply after 60 days, the Ministry of Economic Affairs may seize and liquidate the institution, paying off depositors first, then creditors (whoever the institution owes money to), and then shareholders.
(c.i) Continued failure to comply for over 31 days will lead to dissolvement and liquidation of the financial institution and funds being recovered to all clients as best as possible after relevant debtors including the government have been paid.
(d) Incorrectly accounting taxes on profits at the end of each quarter shall incur a warning initially, with the institution required to file an updated accurate filing.
(e) Failure to correctly manage and account taxes on profits at the end of each quarter after a 7 day leniency period (of which the MEA is expected to warn) shall be followed by a three stage process.
(e.i) Warning to be administered after 7 days over the leniency period. Over this a $1,000 per day fee shall be levied by the MEA.

(i) For all future occurrences, the Ministry of Economic Affairs may levy a fine at its discretion.
(ii) Repeated failure to properly account taxes may be prosecuted as criminal fraud.
(e) Financial institutions who do not show activity and are not actively trying to offer products and services shall be considered as trying to commit “Financial Institutional Tax Evasion” which shall have a 15 minute jail period for the owner, and up to $5,000 in fines levied by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
(g) Financial institutions who do not show activity and are not actively trying to offer products and services shall be considered as actively trying to commit “Financial Institutional Tax Evasion” which shall have a 15 minute jail period, up to $5,000 in fines levied by the MEA and BOA. Furthermore, the infringing financial institution may be liquidated if no changes occur after 30 days of the court ruling.
 
Back
Top