April 9, 2025
The removal vote.
Eight votes, where the Bylaws require ten to remove a Grand Board member. Everything that follows presumes this vote carried. The Arithmetic of April 9 →
The court actions and demands directed at the Grand Sire Archon since April 9, 2025 — by date, and by docket.
What follows is a chronology. Each entry gives the date and the filing that records it. Several are matters of public record on the federal docket — United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, No. 1:25-cv-02975-SDG — and the words placed in quotation are the court’s own, taken from its orders. Nothing here is characterized. The dates are left to speak for themselves.
Where it stands
In May 2025, the Fraternity sued the Grand Sire Archon in federal court in Atlanta, asking the court to order these communications stopped, and for money damages. The case then sat unserved for more than five months. When the Fraternity finally moved — by emergency motion, without notice to him — to have him restrained, the court denied the motion, and directed the Fraternity to show cause why the case should not be dismissed for its failure to serve. A renewed motion is now pending, with argument set for June 26, 2026. To date, no order restraining these communications is in effect.
April 9, 2025
Eight votes, where the Bylaws require ten to remove a Grand Board member. Everything that follows presumes this vote carried. The Arithmetic of April 9 →
April 29, 2025
Counsel for the Grand Board demands that he take down the websites, stop using the name and marks, cease the communications, and confirm in writing that the April 30 meeting is canceled. Read the letter →
May 21, 2025
The Grand Grammateus declares him “administratively suspended” in a Fraternity-wide notice — a sanction the Code of Conduct does not contain, imposed before any complaint had been filed. The challenge →
May 23, 2025
A single Archon files a grievance — four counts, three of them naming the same conduct the demand letter named two days earlier. The Charges, Twice →
May 30, 2025
The Fraternity files suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, seeking an injunction to stop these communications and money damages.
N.D. Ga. No. 1:25-cv-02975-SDG · ECF 1
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Then, for more than five months, the suit is not served.
October 6, 2025
Counsel escalates, threatening federal CAN-SPAM, trademark, and trade-secret claims over the book and its solicitation.
November 5, 2025
More than five months after filing, the Fraternity moves for an emergency temporary restraining order — ex parte, without notice to him — asking the court to stop these communications.
N.D. Ga. · ECF 19–20 · styled by the Fraternity an “Emergency Ex Parte Motion”
November 13, 2025
The court denied the motion. In the same order, it directed the Fraternity to account for the months the case had gone unserved — in its own words:
“The Fraternity’s motion for a TRO … is DENIED.”
The Fraternity is “ORDERED to show cause … why this action should not be dismissed for its failure to timely effect service of process.”
Order of the Hon. Steven D. Grimberg · N.D. Ga. No. 1:25-cv-02975-SDG · ECF 22 · November 13, 2025
November 20, 2025
The Fraternity’s affidavit of service is filed with the court unexecuted.
N.D. Ga. · ECF 23
April 24, 2026
The Fraternity files again — a renewed motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.
N.D. Ga. · ECF 32
June 26, 2026
The court sets oral argument on the renewed motion. To date, no order restraining these communications is in effect.
N.D. Ga. · ECF 36 · hearing set before Judge Grimberg
The documents
The first cease-and-desist — April 29, 2025 → The grievance notice — May 23, 2025 → The challenge to the administrative suspension → The Charges, Twice — the demand letter and the grievance, side by side →The federal filings cited here are part of the public docket of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, No. 1:25-cv-02975-SDG, and may be examined there in full. The orders quoted are the court’s own.