A California court granted ZeroDarkTony a five-year restraining order against a Louisiana man it had never fully heard. The record the court didn’t see comes from D’Amato’s own streams, sworn Louisiana police reports, and the public file of his recent criminal case.
In the courtroom fight over whether California could reach a Louisiana man who had never set foot in the state, Jared Brooks invoked California’s procedure for challenging a judge’s impartiality. The challenge itself appears to have disappeared into a continuance.
The April 17 hearing in D’Amato v. Brooks ended without a ruling. ZeroDarkTony’s team is trying to establish jurisdiction over a Louisiana resident by pointing to his public comment calls into California State Bar teleconference meetings. We break down what happened in court, why that jurisdictional theory faces serious legal problems, and what options Brooks…
A Los Angeles live streamer, ZeroDarkTony, returns to the same jurisdictional battlefield that destroyed his first case — this time with a lawyer. It may not be enough.
On January 19, 2026, a California streamer known as ZeroDarkTony, on active probation for multiple violations of a restraining order, broadcast a detailed campaign of workplace threats, mass subpoena intimidation, and financial ruin promises—all live, to a paying audience.
On April 8, 2025, Anthony D’Amato targeted a man in Slidell with slurs, threats, and doxxed his location — then contacted police on air. Weeks later, D’Amato called again, this time claiming he was handicapped and afraid.