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Two lawyers challenging election results must pay $187K

Journal by DannyB

Two lawyers who filed suit challenging election results ordered to pay nearly $187K

A federal judge on Monday ordered two Colorado lawyers who filed lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election to pay nearly $187,000.

[....] “As officers of the Court, these attorneys have a higher duty and calling that requires meaningful investigation before prematurely repeating in court pleadings unverified and uninvestigated defamatory rumors that strike at the heart of our democratic system and were used by others to foment a violent insurrection that threatened our system of government,” Neureiter wrote in a Monday order.

[....] Fielder and Walker filed a class-action suit in December of 2020 on behalf of American voters alleging voting machine vendor Dominion Voting Systems, government officials in four states, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan hatched a plan to steal the election from former President Trump.

Neureiter dismissed the case in April and in August ruled that both attorneys had violated their ethical obligations. He also referenced the suit at the time as “the stuff of which violent insurrections are made.”

The Monday order required the lawyers to pay more than $11,000 to cover the legal fees of the states of Michigan and Pennsylvania as well as $50,000 to Facebook and $62,930 each to Dominion and the Center for Tech and Civic Life.

"The total amount the two Plaintiffs’ counsel will have to jointly pay, adding in the stipulated awards to the States, will be approximately $186,922, which I find to be an adequate sanction award to send the appropriate message and deter such misconduct in the future, without being unnecessarily punitive," Neureiter wrote in the order.

Trump lost.

Get over it.

If you had any evidence he won, we would all have seen it by now.

Of course Mike Lindell still says SCOTUS is going to overturn the 2020 election once he presents his evidence. We're still waiting.

UPDATE: Mike Lindell has finally filed something with the SCOTUS. See my comment below.

 

Reply to: Mike Lindell update

    (Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:50PM

    by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:50PM (#1199041)

    I wrote above:

    Of course Mike Lindell still says SCOTUS is going to overturn the 2020 election once he presents his evidence. We're still waiting.

    Here is an update:

    Mike Lindell Blames a Vast GOP Conspiracy for His Supreme Court Failure [thedailybeast.com]

    The pillow boss has long promised he’d file his unhinged ravings to the high court by Tuesday, but that hasn’t happened. Of course, a conspiracy must be to blame, Lindell says.

    MyPillow chief and 2020 dead-ender Mike Lindell has long promised that he would file an election-fraud complaint with the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning. But now he claims to have missed that goal because he was silenced by Republican National Committee Chairperson Ronna McDaniel.

    It was a last-minute pressure campaign orchestrated by the RNC and McDaniel that prevented his case from moving forward and “saving the country,” Lindell now alleges.

    [....] Lindell blasted McDaniel, alleging she orchestrated a vast Republican conspiracy against him when she finally acknowledged late last week that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

    “How dare the RNC try and stop this case from getting to the Supreme Court. Shame on you, RNC! You are worse than Fox [News] now!” [ . . . ]

    It goes on and on, but I think you get the pitcher.

         

    For fun reading:

    Capitol riot suspect’s court hearing turns to potential criminal charge for Trump [politico.com]

    House Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas to Proud Boys, Oath Keepers [washingtonpost.com]

    House committee subpoenas far-right groups and leaders over Capitol attack [theguardian.com]

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