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JUDGMENT Signed by District Judge Linda V. Parker. (AFla) (Entered: 12/02/2021)
Plaintiffs initiated this action on November 25, 2020. (ECF No. 1.) Their claims were subsequently dismissed either voluntarily (ECF Nos. 86-91) or by leave of Court (ECF No. 149). Defendants and the Intervenor-Defendants filed motions for sanctions. On August 25, 2021, the Court granted the motions filed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and the City of Detroit and granted in part and denied in part the motion filed by Robert Davis. (ECF No. 172.) The sanctions awarded included the reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by Governor Whitmer, Secretary of State Benson, and the City of Detroit. The Court decided on the amount of the fee awards in an Opinion and Order entered today.
Accordingly,
IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ counsel, jointly and severally, shall pay attorneys’ fees in the amount of $21,964.75 to Defendants Gretchen Whitmer and Jocelyn Benson;
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ counsel, jointly and severally, shall pay attorneys’ fees in the amount of $153,285.62 to Intervenor-Defendant City of Detroit;
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this matter is CLOSED.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/ Linda V. Parker
LINDA V. PARKER
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated: December 2, 2021
The public and other individuals should not have to pay for the costs of this election fraud nonsense which has no evidence nor any basis in fact. If it did, they would have shown some.
(oh, but Mike Lindell . . . yeah, right.)
See also:
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @04:03PM (12 children)
Libruls approve of librul judge's ruling favoring librul politicians. News at 11:00!!
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @04:22PM
Morons commit treason over provably false election lies. Morons likely to howl at moon, more on this as the story develops.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday December 03 2021, @04:49PM
The judge was fair. It is all out in the open. If they had any actual evidence they should have actually presented it. Woah! What an idea! If they think the judge and/or trial was unfair, biased, etc that is one of the reasons you can appeal. Because the trial was unfair. (You don't get to appeal because you don't like the outcome, only because there was something wrong with the process of how the outcome was arrived at.)
It seems pretty fair that if you have zero evidence of election fraud, and are filing a suit merely for publicity purposes, that you should not only lose, but you should have to pay the defendant's costs in defending from this farsical nonsense.
I keep hearing that there is some evidence that Trump won the election. I have yet to see any. Some grand conspiracy. Voting machine rigging by dead dictators. Bamboo. And all sorts of other outlandish claims.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @06:53PM (9 children)
No idea whether she is a democrat loyalist or not. This order is just a fixing of attorney costs for a matter that was closed previously, and should be non-political.
Perhaps our local DNC rep can provide PDFs of the actual meat and potatoes of this case. Was it related to the Republican observers being barred from observing the counting of the votes? The boarding up of windows to prevent any observation of what was going on?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday December 03 2021, @08:07PM (8 children)
Can you not find out for yourself? Lick the clink that I provided above [courtlistener.com] in TFA. Select and copy the case number. 20-13134 Now use this magical tool called Google.
Find this. Civil Case No. 20-13134 [uscourts.gov] That is 36 pages of explanation. Here is some of it.
That is just the first page. The next pages go into greater detail. This is all out in the open. Not hidden under a rock or in some back room somewhere.
Now was that so difficult?
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @08:15PM (7 children)
That doesn't answer the question
Were observers barred and the shades pulled? The count room should be full of cameras and broadcast on the internet at least. Without transparency fraud must be assumed.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday December 03 2021, @09:04PM (3 children)
If your question is not part of the lawsuit, then it is irrelevant to the lawsuit.
The court room is always recorded by a court recorder and a transcript is created. Many (most?) modern court rooms also keep an audio record in addition to (or instead of?) a court reporter.
Some courts allow cameras. (Just see YouTube as an example of videos taken by permission of the court.)
Courts try to be transparent.
What are you complaining about? Other than you don't like the outcome because the plaintiffs didn't even try to prove their case because their lawsuit was for the purpose of publicity.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @10:47PM (2 children)
Heh, very funny, but not the court room, the count room, where votes are counted. Full transparency is required, cameras, microphones, every bit of spy equipment you can think of, big windows to let people see inside.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 06 2021, @03:55PM (1 child)
If that is your question, then it should have been part of the lawsuit complaint. With supporting evidence.
It's funny how all these conspiracy theories are NEVER backed up by actual evidence. Just loud strong assertions that it is true.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 06 2021, @10:00PM
No, not an assertion, it was a question that you still haven't answered. I don't care about the lawsuits. Did it happen or not? Were the shades pulled? If you don't know, just say it without the pontificating
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @10:30PM (1 child)
They were, we all saw the pictures. But this lawsuit didn't go into that. From what I gather here, it was a federal suit that attempted to halt the submission of the state results. Our DNC rep provided an injunction denial that basically said "filed too late", and that the 11th amendment restricts citizens' suits in federal court against a state.
No idea whether there are state efforts still ongoing to enforce transparency in the future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 06 2021, @07:26PM
"The pictures"?
Citations please. Last I heard there were some photos of ballots in a ditch and some other sketchy pics that were misleading, all debunked and the ditch photos were actually done by some Republican asshole trying to fabricate the evidence. We continue to see actual evidence of extremist conservatives trying to cheat elections, and all the evidence they claim to have always seems to disappear in a puff of fakery and bullshit.
PLEASE if you have credible evidence SHARE IT! So far on this site all we've gotten are sketchy images attached to opinion pieces with lots of emotionally scary language.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 06 2021, @09:56PM
Troll
As usual, the dems don't want to ask the right questions. They just want to pad their numbers any way they can
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday December 03 2021, @05:53PM (6 children)
Anybody placing bets?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday December 03 2021, @06:40PM (5 children)
The defendants who were wrongfully sued can petition the court for an Order of Replevin. (Google that phrase.) (remembering back to Groklaw daze here.)
The U.S. Marshal can come and seize whatever property is necessary to ensure the judgement is paid. If it comes to that, it would be fun to watch these clowns get raided. Not only do they make false claims of election fraud without any evidence or basis in fact, but they also think they are above the law and not subject to court judgements. If that happens, I want a front row seat.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 04 2021, @01:19AM (1 child)
If that happens, then the matter will be closed
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 04 2021, @01:54AM
Lookit mr armchair lawyer over here spittin dem hot takes!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 04 2021, @10:44AM (2 children)
If they really don't want to pay up, it is easier to just serve every bank, investment firm, credit union, etc. you can think of to garnish their debts owed to the loser so they have to give them to the winners instead.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 06 2021, @03:29PM (1 child)
Doing what you suggest as well as an Order of Replevin are not mutually exclusive options.
Somehow, I think the US justice system has figured out how to collect judgements from rich deadbeats.
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @01:57AM
They are. Replevin isn't what you think it is.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @06:08PM (3 children)
It is lovely seeing the lack of rightwing shitposts for the most part. Guess the Big Lie actually does give them some embarassment. Probably gonna be too much for them to admit the insurrection was a mistake.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @06:29PM (2 children)
Uh oh, triggered one of them! Abort abort got an offended domestic terrorist!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 03 2021, @11:12PM
Stop it Runaway, you're kraken us up.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 04 2021, @05:33PM
Since the comment seems to be getting traction, it referred to the downmodder of the OP. You can tell bt the use of "domestic terrorist" which is a Republican hobby these days.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Friday December 03 2021, @07:21PM
Revealed: how Sidney Powell could be disbarred for lying in court for Trump [theguardian.com]
See also:
More lawyers sanctioned trying to overthrow election [soylentnews.org]
where I quoted . . .
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?