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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 Pillow finally files something with SCOTUS

    (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 24 2021, @06:13PM

    by DannyB (5839) on Wednesday November 24 2021, @06:13PM (#1199254)

    And my oh my is it funny.

    Mike Lindell Finally Reveals His Supreme Court Complaint, And Critics Have Notes [huffpost.com]

    MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Tuesday released a copy of his long-promised Supreme Court complaint to overturn the 2020 presidential election, though it had not actually been filed and it listed the plaintiff as “[insert your state].”

    “We will have this before the Supreme Court before Thanksgiving,” he promised in September. “That’s my promise to the people of this country.”

    On Tuesday evening, he published a copy [michaeljlindell.com] of the complaint on his website, though it appeared to be missing some essential components and he had apparently failed to get any state attorneys general to sign on to it.

    [....] Legal experts and critics offered bemused commentary on the document:

    All the more so because #SCOTUS couldn’t hear this nonsense even if it wanted to (which, to be clear, it doesn’t) unless the as-yet-unnamed plaintiff is one of the 50 states. https://t.co/V8YTNkqjuR [t.co]
            — Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 24, 2021

            Anyway, I read Lindell's complaint. tl;dr:

            * This is not an actual lawsuit
            * The court already said it wouldn't hear this stuff
            * It's a huge grab-bag of conspiracies, most of which have been known to be false for an entire year now
            * An actual lawyer wrote this

            Caveat emptor.
            — Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 24, 2021

    Mike Lindell Finally Reveals His Supreme Court Complaint, And Critics Have Notes [yahoo.com]

    Pillow magnate Mike Lindell has posted a copy of his long-promised election-overturning Supreme Court complaint on his website and it's missing a few things you commonly find in lawsuits, such as a plaintiff and lawyers.

    pic.twitter.com/BmWaqyFVfa [soylentnews.org]

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