In June, Lindell sued Smartmatic and Dominion in Minnesota, making similar claims about them trying to suppress his opinion (that case was transferred to DC, where Nichols took it over and consolidated it into Dominion's case as well). Separately, Lindell and Smartmatic had been tangling on two different fronts. All three conspiracy theorists falsely claimed, in one way or another, that Dominion and the rival election technology company Smartmatic rigged the 2020 presidential election results against then-President Donald Trump and in favor of now-President Joe Biden. In early 2021, Dominion filed separate defamation lawsuits against Mike Lindell and MyPillow, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell. The knotty fight over whether the judge will sanction Lindell and his lawyers is tied up with a larger, more complicated lawsuit over whether he defamed Dominion. "If there's no support for what they want to do, then an attorney shouldn't be filing the suit." Mike Lindell dragged Smartmatic into Dominion's lawsuit "It doesn't matter how passionate someone is," Jacobowitz said. While lawyers don't always have to think they have a slam-dunk case, Jacobowitz said, it's the duty of every lawyer to make sure their cases make sense. Jan Jacobowitz, a legal ethics advisor, said that Lindell's lawyers may have run afoul of Rule 11 in the federal rules of civil procedure, which requires attorneys to file only motions that have a basis in fact and law. Nichols, who's presiding over the case, to order Lindell and his lawyers to hand over any money they've made from their litigation. Smartmatic asked US District Judge Carl J. Forcing Smartmatic to defend against a case that has no proper purpose is sanctionable." "Instead, he is using this court as a platform and abusing its legitimacy to promote his narrative that the 2020 election was rigged. Lindell has none," lawyers for Smartmatic wrote in a February filing. "His complaint does not raise a viable claim against Smartmatic because Mr.
Lindell's purpose in filing his lawsuit, Connolly wrote in court filings, was "to undermine confidence in the 2020 US election" - something he said should result in sanctions. But that doesn't provide you a factual or a legal predicate for a claim." "I understand that someone can throw a lot of spaghetti on the wall. "There's no legal precedent for the claims that are being brought," Smartmatic's attorney J. But the outlandish nature of the accusations pressed them to take another step: Asking the judge to sanction Lindell and his lawyers before the case is even over. Smartmatic has denied the claims and repeatedly pointed out that it played a role in only one county's election administration in 2020.
"They were part of the biggest crime in human history, period.
"This was the biggest crime family, probably bigger than the mafia crime family," Lindell told Insider in an interview.
#SIMAIRPORT GONNA GET SUED FREE#
As part of one counterclaim, he alleged in court filings that Smartmatic and Dominion are both owned by Chinese nationals and that they colluded with a public relations firm to suppress his free speech and ruin him financially. Taking the offense, the MyPillow CEO has filed countersuits and refused to hand over discovery information to Dominion after a federal judge said the technology company's lawsuit could proceed. The MyPillow CEO, on the other hand, has become more worked up, livid at what he sees as nothing less than the theft of American democracy. Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani have studiously defended themselves against defamation lawsuits from Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems. Of all the people who have lied about the 2020 presidential election, no one has fought harder than Mike Lindell.
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