NOTE 13 - MANAGEMENT ASSERTIONS ON COURT CASES | General Litigation First Capital Venture Co. v. Thunder Energies Corporation, f/k/a Thunder Fusion Corporation, CCJ ACQUISITION CORP d/b/a the Hemplug, the Hemplug, LLC, Nature Consulting, LLC, et al., Case No. CACE 20-019111. On November 3, 2020, First Capital Venture d/b/a Diamond CBD, Ltd., filed its 5-count verified Complaint seeking injunctive and declaratory relief as well as damages against Defendants. Specifically, the verified Complaint alleges the Defendants violated Florida’s Uniform Trade Secrets Act as well as allegations that the Defendants tortiously interfered with a contractual or business relationship of First Capital Venture. On February 17, 2021, Defendants filed their answer and affirmative defenses. On March 5, 2021, First Capital Venture filed its Motion for Order to Show Cause in which it seeks sanctions for Defendants’ failure to comply with the Court’s Order compelling Defendants to provide responses to Plaintiff’s discovery requests. At a hearing on March 29, 2021, the judge deferred ruling on First Capital Venture’s Motion for Order to Show Cause. Immediately following the Show Cause Hearing, the Defendants filed response to Plaintiff’s Motion for Order to Show Cause and the Plaintiff filed a memorandum in support. Prior to the Motion for Order to Show Cause, on February 17, 2021, Defendants furnished a request for production of documents to Plaintiff. Within the time prescribed by the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure to respond to the Defendants’ request for production, Plaintiff filed a motion for extension of time to respond to the request for production of documents on March 16, 2021. Defendants filed a motion to compel the responses for the Defendants’ Request for Production of Documents to Plaintiffs, however, there is no pending Order compelling the Plaintiff to provide the discovery as of the date of this report. On April 28, 2021, the Judge signed an Order which compelled the Defendants, Yogev Shvo and Orel Ben Simon, before the Honorable Court to show cause as to why the Defendants should not be held in contempt of Court for failure to properly respond to outstanding discovery. On May 10, 2021, a special set hearing occurred in which the Judge deferred ruling on the Motion for Order to Show Cause. The case remains ongoing. Therefore, on May 14, 2021, First Capital Venture Co., filed an eight-count complaint against T1 Payments, LLC, Donald Kasdon and Does 1 through 10, in District Court, Clark County, Nevada, under case number: A-21-834626-B. The 8-count Complaint against the previous merchant processor seeks the return of $649,311.73 being held by the merchant processor and seeks damages related to this processor ceasing to accept MasterCard payments from the Company’s customers for the purchase of the Company’s products. The Company is seeking declaratory relief as well as damages against the Defendants. Specifically, the Complaint alleged the Defendants breached the contract between the parties, fraud, conversion and unjust enrichment. To help expediate the litigation of this case, Company’s counsel sought a more specialized type of proceeding by requesting the matter be heard in business court. The Company is continuing to work with counsel in California and Nevada to resolve this matter. Dr. Bomi Joseph v. PotNetwork Holdings, Inc. et al, Potter v. PotNetwork Holdings, Inc., Diamond CBD, and First Capital Venture Co., Viral Vapes, LLC, v. CBD, LLC, PotNetwork Holdings Inc. Convertible Promissory Note Litigation Matters In addition to the above, PotNetwork Holdings Inc. has been involved in the following legal proceedings, each since dismissed as the result of a respective settlement agreement or each in renewed settlement negotiations, and each of which is specific to each plaintiff suing the Company based upon the convertibility of a promissory note. In each case the Company had contested the validity of the request for conversion of shares pursuant to each such note (each referred to as a “Note”). The following are the case references to each case filed by each of the plaintiffs (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”): • Mammoth West Corporation v PotNetwork Holdings Inc., Case No. 17 CH 778, 19th Circuit Court of Lake County, IL. Filed May 26, 2017. • Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership vs. SND Auto Group, Inc., Case No. 3:17-cv-01925 US District Court for the District of Connecticut, filed January 5, 2018. • J. P. Carey Limited Partners, L.P. v. PotNetwork Holdings, Inc., Case No.3:18-CV-00873-WWE, US District Court for the District of Connecticut, filed May 24, 2018. Each Plaintiff had filed a civil complaint with regard to their rights to convert a specific Note. In each case, the Note was issued not by the Company, but by its predecessor issuer, SND Auto Company Inc. (which predecessor issuer had changed its name before changing it back to SND Auto Group, Inc.). Each Note was issued by SND Auto Company Inc., respectively on June 13, 2016 to Mammoth West Corporation and on July 18, 2016 to Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership, for money paid to SND Auto Company Inc., at a time when SND Auto Company Inc. was the public entity, with sole operations in the automotive industry. (Plaintiff, J. P. Carey Limited Partners, L.P., on March 1, 2018, was a subsequent purchaser of a portion of the Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership Note and conversion rights connected to the amount purchased, which it then attempted to convert on the pre-reorganization terms and conditions of the Note, as more fully defined below.) Subsequent to the issuance of the Notes, on March 14, 2017, SND Auto Company Inc. had engaged in a holding company reorganization whereby SND Auto Company Inc., became a subsidiary of the public entity. The holding company reorganization was an express condition of a private company, First Capital Venture Holdings Co., whose acquisition was the principal reason for the reorganization. Each Plaintiff had sought to convert into shares of the post reorganization Company, at a conversion price of a fraction of a penny per share, based on SND Auto Group, Inc.’s share price prior to the reorganization. The Company disputed the conversion amounts presented by the Plaintiffs The relief that had been sought by each Plaintiff in each case is as follows: • Mammoth West Corporation: Issuance of the shares per each of its conversion notices per the original terms of its Note, reasonable attorneys’ fees and reimbursement of court costs, and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. • Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership: Damages of at least $743,150, interest, punitive damages, a mandatory injunction seeking specific performance, reasonable attorneys’ fees and reimbursement of court costs, and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. • J. P. Carey Limited Partners, L.P.; Damages of at least $573,890, interest, punitive damages, a mandatory injunction seeking specific performance, reasonable attorneys’ fees and reimbursement of court costs, and such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate. On August 27, 2020, the Court dismissed the case brought by Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership for failing to obtain counsel to prosecute the case after the Court’s order to do so. Southridge subsequently sought to refile its claim. On January 21, 2021, the Company and Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership came to a settlement, whereby the Company agreed to issue 38 million shares of the Company’s common stock, valued at $296,400, to an affiliate of Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership, Livingston Asset Management, LLC, subject to certain leak out provisions. The case subsequently was dismissed. However, on July 20, 2021, Southridge Partners II Limited Partnership, and Livingston Asset Management, LLC filed a new complaint in the 17 th On October 22, 2020, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with Mammoth Corporation subject to a court approval per a 3(a)10 fairness hearing. On December 11, 2020, the fairness hearing was conducted by the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Lake County, Illinois, Civil Action No. 17 CH 778. As a result of the court’s approval of the settlement agreement, on December 24, 2020, the Company issued 28,000,000 common shares to Mammoth West Corporation, valued at $315,420, for all indebtedness owed. The case has subsequently been dismissed. |