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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.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Tuesday November 23 2021, @08:52PM (2 children)
Just to bump something important . . . [soylentnews.org]
Seven From Anti-Vax Doctors’ COVID Conference Fall Sick Within Days [thedailybeast.com]
So called doctors who obviously don't know what they are doing. Are more about politics than medicine and science.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:05PM (1 child)
Yet liberals the ones they accuse of making it political. The internal dissonance should be ripping their skulls open, maybe a materials scientist could make a breakthrough with a little study.
(Score: 5, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:12PM
Oh that one's easy. It's bone all the way down!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:50PM (6 children)
I wrote above:
Here is an update:
Mike Lindell Blames a Vast GOP Conspiracy for His Supreme Court Failure [thedailybeast.com]
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]
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 27 2021, @09:05AM
You mean my family wasted their money on "Trump 2021" merchandise? I totally could not have predicted that outcome!</sarcasm>
But this does explain why their chatter changed from winning to filing to writing the lawsuit by Thanksgiving.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday November 29 2021, @03:25PM (4 children)
You are hijacking your own thread . . .
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 29 2021, @03:35PM
Yes, there are tearists everyware.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 29 2021, @03:46PM (2 children)
I actually mention Mike Lindell in the journal entry. And I relate him to the challenges to the election results. And only an idiot would begin or end a sentence with the word And.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday November 29 2021, @04:55PM (1 child)
And is a perfectly cromulent word. What do you have against the word and?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday November 29 2021, @05:29PM
But only an idiot would begin or end a sentence with the word But.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 24 2021, @05:19PM
A popular rightwing social media figure just stated that rioters and looters don't deserve to win. Michael Flynn has called for violeny religious revolution. They are calling for murder in the open, the US is in real trouble.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 24 2021, @06:13PM
And my oh my is it funny.
Mike Lindell Finally Reveals His Supreme Court Complaint, And Critics Have Notes [huffpost.com]
Mike Lindell Finally Reveals His Supreme Court Complaint, And Critics Have Notes [yahoo.com]
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?