Feb. 20 Pretrial Conference Is Set in Game Developer's ‘Double-Dealing’ Case

U.S. Magistrate Judge Kyle Dudek for Middle Florida in Fort Myers scheduled a preliminary pretrial videoconference for Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. in the fraud case brought by Basket Entertainment against its former vice president, John Cannata, said a text-only docket entry Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-01028). The parties’ joint case management report is due Feb. 20, it said. Basket, a developer of online games and mobile apps for the Roblox platform, hired Cannata in July and added him to its board to identify acquisition targets to grow its user base, but Basket alleges that Cannata almost immediately “engaged in an outrageous campaign of double-dealing” (see 2311140004). It contends that Cannata went behind the company’s back and acquired ownership interests in at least two online games for himself “without ever presenting them as opportunities” to his employer.