Attorneys representing MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell have taken a tough line within the defamation lawsuit filed in opposition to him by Dominion Voting Methods, refusing to share discovery supplies, in accordance with court docket paperwork filed by Dominion on Monday.
In February 2021, Dominion filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit in opposition to Lindell for claiming that Dominion's voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of now-President Joe Biden.
Dominion is concurrently litigating defamation lawsuits in opposition to Lindell and two former attorneys representing the 2020 re-election marketing campaign of then-President Donald Trump: Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani.
Lindell, Powell and Giuliani filed motions to dismiss the lawsuits. Nevertheless, District Decide Carl J. Nichols denied them, then consolidated the circumstances so they might proceed collectively. Nichols additionally denied Lindell's movement to have the courts contemplate Lindell and MyPillow as two separate entities.
In September 2021, Nichols ordered the defendants' and Dominion's attorneys to start out assembly to create a schedule for the invention course of and extra motions, Enterprise Insider reported.
Dominion's attorneys issued their first request for discovery paperwork to the defendants on January 12, 2022. Nevertheless, the next day, Lindell and MyPillow stated that Dominion's request was untimely as a result of Lindell and his firm hadn't totally exhausted their appeals choices to have Nichols' denials overturned.
"Lindell and MyPillow additionally stated they're significantly taking appeals from each orders all the way in which to america Supreme Court docket, if want be," Dominion's attorneys wrote of their Monday court docket submitting.
Dominion famous that Lindell and MyPillow countersued Dominion, its public relations firm Hamilton Place Methods, and Smartmatic, one other voting machine producer that Lindell additionally accused of rigging the 2020 elections.
Dominion wrote that it's going to transfer to dismiss Lindell's countersuit on January 31. Nevertheless, if Lindell's countersuit is allowed to proceed, then he and his firm will nonetheless should submit documentation for the invention part of that trial, Dominion famous.
Within the court docket filings, Dominion stated that Lindell's attorneys had accused Dominion of "spoilation," which implies destroying or altering proof.
"Their concern is with out foundation or assist actually," Dominion wrote. "MyPillow and Lindell search inappropriately to sensationalize filings."
In its court docket submitting, Dominion listed the paperwork that Lindell and the opposite defendants will search from the voting machine firm through the trial's discovery part.
The defendants will need paperwork proving that Dominion's machines have "built-in modems, are linked to the web, and might be accessed remotely." They may also search Dominion's monetary paperwork in addition to its contracts with state and municipal election boards hoping to show that Dominion hasn't economically suffered from the defendants' rigging allegations.
Defendants are additionally searching for any documentation that implies that Dominion is owned, whether or not immediately or not directly, by overseas buyers or state actors. This proof would assist the defendants' claims that the voting machine producer is owned or managed by overseas pursuits.
"The investigation might search to find out the function Dominion performs in not merely
promoting election voting gear, however in working and managing state and federal elections by way of on-site personnel who're the one individuals who've the power to entry the voting machine's audit logs, thereby rendering state and federal audits meaningless and in violation of state and federal regulation," the court docket submitting continues.
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