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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.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Tuesday November 23 2021, @08:52PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday November 23 2021, @08:52PM (#1199009) Journal

    Just to bump something important . . . [soylentnews.org]

    Seven From Anti-Vax Doctors’ COVID Conference Fall Sick Within Days [thedailybeast.com]

    That includes Bruce Boros, who claimed ivermectin was keeping him healthy and said he wanted to smack his own father for getting the vaccine.

            To hear the fringe doctors who gathered at an equine facility for the Florida COVID Summit earlier this month, ivermectin is as effective against the virus in humans as it is against worms in horses.

            “I have been on ivermectin for 16 months, my wife and I,” Dr. Bruce Boros declared at the end of the meeting at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala. “I have never felt healthier in my life.”

            Two days later, the 71-year-old cardiologist fell ill with COVID-19, according to the organizer of the one-day gathering and two other people with direct knowledge.

            The organizer, Dr. John Littell, further reported to The Daily Beast that six others among the 800 to 900 participants had also tested positive or developed COVID symptoms “within days of the conference.”

            “People are considering if it was a superspreader event,” Littell said.

            [....] Littell added, “Everybody so far has responded to treatment with ivermectin… Bruce is doing well.”

            Boros remained seriously ill at his Key West home, according to people who know him but who asked not to be identified. Boros himself did not respond to phone messages and emails.

            [....] “Fauci is a fraud—big pharma is playing us for suckers. Dr. Boros.”

    So called doctors who obviously don't know what they are doing. Are more about politics than medicine and science.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 23 2021, @09:05PM (#1199020)

    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.