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    Default Re: Smartmatic sues Fox, Giuliani, Powell, others for $2.7 Billion

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    Because fraud isn't a thing?

    I know BW thinks at least one of these things is done with intent.
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    This is why I'm asking you. I want to know why, under BW's crazy accusations of destroying evidence, they can't be charged with some crime if it comes out in discovery. Those are the three ways that it would be...well...discovered that computer data is literally either destroyed or fake.

    You as a lawyer, don't know how to destroy computer data. I as a computer scientist, do. I am asking how this works.
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    when you give me one. quid pro quo. Also conon. he's been nailing these points. It's hard as ing hell to do what BW thinks has been done.
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    Default Re: Smartmatic sues Fox, Giuliani, Powell, others for $2.7 Billion

    I know the feeling.

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    Dominion Voting Systems Files Defamation Lawsuit Against MyPillow, CEO Mike Lindell

    Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell on Monday, saying he spread false information that its voting machines rigged the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
    Dominion filed a suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking damages in excess of $1.3 billion.
    According to the complaint, Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump, knowingly participated in spreading disinformation that Dominion's voting systems stole the election in favor of President Biden. The company calls this the "Big Lie."

    The complaint also alleges that MyPillow ran ads targeted at people who believed the conspiracy theories about the election outcome in order to profit.
    "Lindell — a talented salesman and former professional card counter — sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows. MyPillow's defamatory marketing campaign — with promo codes like 'FightforTrump,' '45,' 'Proof,' and 'QAnon'—has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues duping people into redirecting their election-lie outrage into pillow purchases," the complaint said.

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    Default Re: Smartmatic sues Fox, Giuliani, Powell, others for $2.7 Billion

    Trump's re-election bid was literally a bedtime story?

    Generally billionaires do well in court. Trumps middle name might as well be "mired in the courts", so he's in comfortable terrain here surely. Not so sure about his followers, his business partners seem to do less well (I mean look at the Clintons).
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    Sidney Powell seeks dismissal of Dominion's $1.3B suit

    Sidney Powell, the conservative legal firebrand who helped spearhead President Trump's court challenges to his 2020 defeat, is seeking to throw out a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against her from the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems.
    In a motion submitted in federal district court in D.C. on Monday, Powell argued through her attorneys that the case should be dismissed because it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction and that the claims she made about Dominion were protected under the First Amendment.
    Her attorneys argued that "reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims that await testing by the courts through the adversary process."
    Bold Added.

    That's right, it's YOUR fault for believing her lies and not hers for lying in the first place.

    Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.
    It’s the first defamation suit filed against a media outlet by the voting company, which was a target of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden. Those claims helped spur on rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent siege that left five people dead, including a police officer. The siege led to Trump’s historic second impeachment.

    Dominion argues that Fox News, which amplified inaccurate assertions that Dominion altered votes, “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press.
    “The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” the lawsuit said. “Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process. If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does.”
    Newsmax apologizes to Dominion Voting Systems employee

    Newsmax issued a public apology to a Dominion Voting Systems employee on Friday after airing false allegations against the worker involving the 2020 presidential election.
    The conservative network said in a statement posted to its website that it found "no evidence" backing up claims that employee Eric Coomer had manipulated voting machines or votes as previously alleged.
    “On behalf of Newsmax, we would like to apologize for any harm that our reporting of the allegations against Dr. Coomer may have caused to Dr. Coomer and his family,” Newsmax said in the statement.
    The statement was posted on the network's website at 3:30 p.m. ET. A Newsmax host also read the apology on the air, The Associated Press reported.
    https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5...rtiromo-others

    A date has been set for oral arguments over the dismissal motions of Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, Maria Bartiromo, Sidney Powell, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro in the $2.7-billion Smartmatic defamation case about 2020 presidential election conspiracy theories.

    Judge David B. Cohen of the New York State Supreme Court for the County of New York will hear the arguments on Aug. 17 starting at 9:30 a.m. from attorneys for those seeking to dismiss the case.

    One team of lawyers will represent Fox, Bartiromo, Dobbs, and Pirro in their motion to dismiss, which was filed April 26.

    Giuliani and Powell, who both filed their dismissal motions on April 8, each have their own representation.
    I doubt they suits will be dismissed. From their own arguments in other courts it's clear they knew that they were pushing lies and simply assumed they were untouchable. Now they are shocked to find that the law applies to wealthy Republicans.
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    https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5...lection-claims

    The Dominion voting systems company is suing a pair of far-right media companies and the former head of Overstock.com for defamation based on statements made about the 2020 election.
    In separate lawsuits filed this week, the company alleges that One America News and Newsmax as well as Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock.com, made a series of false claims that the company's machines were manipulated to swing votes in President Biden's favor and against former President Trump.
    “Newsmax helped create and cultivate an alternate reality where up is down, pigs have wings, and Dominion engaged in a colossal fraud to steal the presidency from Donald Trump by rigging the vote,” the lawsuit against Newsmax says, according to The Wall Street Journal.
    The lawsuit against One America News focuses on a series of programming following the election titled “Dominion-izing the Vote,” which the company said was "exclusively devoted to defaming Dominion."
    The lawsuit, which names OAN reporters Chanel Rion and Christina Bobb, alleges the network "recklessly disregarded the truth; indeed, OAN knew the statements it repeatedly broadcast about Dominion were lies."
    Dominion's lawsuit against OAN also criticizes the network for putting Byrne on its airwaves to serve as an "expert" on the company's voting systems.
    "Byrne has a long prior history of fabricating fantastical stories without ever providing a shred of evidence to support their truth, in order to serve his own personal interests," the lawsuit against OAN said.
    In a statement to The Hill, Newsmax said after the election it had "simply reported on allegations made by well-known public figures, including the President, his advisors and members of Congress."
    Notice the bold part Trumpers? They aren't saying "Everything we reported is true, here's the irrefutable proof."

    OAN and Newsmax are desperately backpedaling on their lies, because they're guilty as sin. They deserve to be bankrupted and their assets sold off.

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    Default Re: Smartmatic sues Fox, Giuliani, Powell, others for $2.7 Billion

    Fox can absorb the loss, though the Murdochs may be unhappy.

    On the other hand, it would clear the table of their potential competitors for that specific demographic.
    Eats, shoots, and leaves.

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    https://thehill.com/regulation/34956...ction-lawsuit/

    A U.S. district judge ordered MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to pay some of voting machine company Smartmatic’s court costs and fees, saying in a ruling on Thursday that some of Lindell’s claims against Smartmatic fall “on the frivolous side of the line.”

    “The Court agrees with Smartmatic that Lindell has asserted at least some groundless claims,” U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote in his ruling.
    “In particular, the Court concludes that at the very least Lindell’s claim against Smartmatic under the Support or Advocacy Clause falls on the frivolous side of the line (other claims do too). As a result, the Court orders Lindell and his previous counsel to pay some of the fees and costs Smartmatic has incurred defending itself and moving for sanctions,” he added.

    Nichols also granted motions from Smartmatic, Dominion Voting Systems and Hamilton Place to dismiss the lawsuits against them.
    “Whatever the judge thinks, that’s his opinion,” Lindell told Bloomberg Law in a phone call. “I’ve got lawyers doing more important things like removing these machines from every state.”
    A good start, but everyone who promoted these baseless claims needs to be bankrupted. And Lindell should be in a straitjacket.

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