Judge orders two lawyers who filed suit challenging 2020 e******n to pay hefty fees: ‘They need to take responsibility’
Nov 23, 2021 05:15:08 #
Boy, that's rich...a conservative having to take responsibility for their actions!
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A federal judge has ordered two Colorado lawyers who filed a lawsuit late last year challenging the 2020 e******n results to pay nearly $187,000 to defray the legal fees of groups they sued, arguing that the hefty penalty was proper to deter others from using frivolous suits to undermine the democratic system.
“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 i**********n that threatened our system of government,” wrote Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter.
“They are experienced lawyers who should have known better. They need to take responsibility for their misconduct,” he wrote.
The two lawyers, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, filed the case in December 2020 as a class action on behalf of 160 million American v**ers, alleging there was a complicated plot to steal the e******n from President Donald Trump and give the victory to Joe Biden.
The two argued that a scheme was engineered by the v****g machine vendor D******n V****g Systems; the tech company Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan; and elected officials in four states. They had sought $160 billion in damages.
Their case was dismissed in April. In August, Neureiter ruled that the attorneys had violated their ethical obligations by filing it in the first place, arguing that the duo had run afoul of legal rules that prohibit clogging the courts with frivolous motions and lodging information in court that is not true. At the time, he called their suit “the stuff of which violent i**********ns are made,” alleging they made little effort to determine the t***h of their conspiratorial claims before filing them in court. He ordered them to pay the legal fees of all of the many entities that they had sued.
The two did not respond to a request for comment Monday but have previously argued that their suit was not filed in bad faith. They have appealed Neureiter’s order that they be penalized.
In Monday’s order, Neureiter said the lawyers should pay just over $11,000 to cover the legal fees of the states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, both defendants in the suit, a dollar figure the duo had agreed was fair. The two lawyers had balked, however, at far higher fees requested by three other entities: Facebook, D******n V****g Systems and the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), an e******n reform advocacy group that has received funding from Zuckerberg and Chan.
In a 21-page order Monday, Neureiter ordered that Fielder and Walker pay $50,000 to Facebook and $62,930 each to D******n and CTCL, arguing that billing records submitted by the group showed the fees were reasonable given the prominence of the lawyers who worked on the case and the amount of time they spent.
What’s more, Neureiter wrote, the hefty fees were appropriate given “the severity of the violation” and because the lawyers had solicited donations from the “arguably innocent and gullible public” to fund their suit. He said he weighed whether the penalties could chill future legitimate lawsuits but concluded that “the repetition of defamatory and potentially dangerous unverified allegations is the kind of ‘advocacy’ that needs to be chilled.”
Neureiter agreed to stay his order, pending the outcome of the lawyers’ appeal.
Neureiter’s order is one of the first efforts to put a dollar figure on penalties for lawyers who attempted to use the legal system to overturn the results of the 2020 p**********l e******n.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life provided grants to local governments to help administer e******ns in the midst of the c****av***s p******c, grants that have been the subject of criticism and conspiracy theories by Trump supporters. The group’s executive director, Tiana Epps-Johnson, said in a statement that “not a single challenge” to the grant program “has had basis in fact or law,” adding that “another federal judge has agreed.” She called on Congress to appropriate funding to ensure secure e******ns in 2022.
A spokeswoman for D******n said the company was “grateful for the court’s findings.” She noted another key finding of the judge, who wrote: “This lawsuit has been an abuse of the legal system and an interference with the machinery of government.”
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered that a different group of lawyers that challenged the e******n, including Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood, be financially penalized and referred them for grievance proceedings that could result in the loss of law licenses.
D******n has also sued Powell, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and a number of other individuals and media organizations for defamation, arguing that the company was harmed by false claims its v****g machines were manipulated to steal the e******n from Trump.
In June, a panel of judges in New York suspended Giuliani’s law license, arguing Trump’s personal lawyer had “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements” that amounted to an ongoing threat to the public. Giuliani’s lawyers have said they are confident his license will be restored after a hearing.
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A federal judge has ordered two Colorado lawyers who filed a lawsuit late last year challenging the 2020 e******n results to pay nearly $187,000 to defray the legal fees of groups they sued, arguing that the hefty penalty was proper to deter others from using frivolous suits to undermine the democratic system.
“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 i**********n that threatened our system of government,” wrote Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter.
“They are experienced lawyers who should have known better. They need to take responsibility for their misconduct,” he wrote.
The two lawyers, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker, filed the case in December 2020 as a class action on behalf of 160 million American v**ers, alleging there was a complicated plot to steal the e******n from President Donald Trump and give the victory to Joe Biden.
The two argued that a scheme was engineered by the v****g machine vendor D******n V****g Systems; the tech company Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan; and elected officials in four states. They had sought $160 billion in damages.
Their case was dismissed in April. In August, Neureiter ruled that the attorneys had violated their ethical obligations by filing it in the first place, arguing that the duo had run afoul of legal rules that prohibit clogging the courts with frivolous motions and lodging information in court that is not true. At the time, he called their suit “the stuff of which violent i**********ns are made,” alleging they made little effort to determine the t***h of their conspiratorial claims before filing them in court. He ordered them to pay the legal fees of all of the many entities that they had sued.
The two did not respond to a request for comment Monday but have previously argued that their suit was not filed in bad faith. They have appealed Neureiter’s order that they be penalized.
In Monday’s order, Neureiter said the lawyers should pay just over $11,000 to cover the legal fees of the states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, both defendants in the suit, a dollar figure the duo had agreed was fair. The two lawyers had balked, however, at far higher fees requested by three other entities: Facebook, D******n V****g Systems and the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), an e******n reform advocacy group that has received funding from Zuckerberg and Chan.
In a 21-page order Monday, Neureiter ordered that Fielder and Walker pay $50,000 to Facebook and $62,930 each to D******n and CTCL, arguing that billing records submitted by the group showed the fees were reasonable given the prominence of the lawyers who worked on the case and the amount of time they spent.
What’s more, Neureiter wrote, the hefty fees were appropriate given “the severity of the violation” and because the lawyers had solicited donations from the “arguably innocent and gullible public” to fund their suit. He said he weighed whether the penalties could chill future legitimate lawsuits but concluded that “the repetition of defamatory and potentially dangerous unverified allegations is the kind of ‘advocacy’ that needs to be chilled.”
Neureiter agreed to stay his order, pending the outcome of the lawyers’ appeal.
Neureiter’s order is one of the first efforts to put a dollar figure on penalties for lawyers who attempted to use the legal system to overturn the results of the 2020 p**********l e******n.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life provided grants to local governments to help administer e******ns in the midst of the c****av***s p******c, grants that have been the subject of criticism and conspiracy theories by Trump supporters. The group’s executive director, Tiana Epps-Johnson, said in a statement that “not a single challenge” to the grant program “has had basis in fact or law,” adding that “another federal judge has agreed.” She called on Congress to appropriate funding to ensure secure e******ns in 2022.
A spokeswoman for D******n said the company was “grateful for the court’s findings.” She noted another key finding of the judge, who wrote: “This lawsuit has been an abuse of the legal system and an interference with the machinery of government.”
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered that a different group of lawyers that challenged the e******n, including Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood, be financially penalized and referred them for grievance proceedings that could result in the loss of law licenses.
D******n has also sued Powell, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and a number of other individuals and media organizations for defamation, arguing that the company was harmed by false claims its v****g machines were manipulated to steal the e******n from Trump.
In June, a panel of judges in New York suspended Giuliani’s law license, arguing Trump’s personal lawyer had “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements” that amounted to an ongoing threat to the public. Giuliani’s lawyers have said they are confident his license will be restored after a hearing.
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Nov 23, 2021 06:00:20 #
Nov 23, 2021 06:01:19 #
PeterS wrote:
Boy, that's rich...a conservative having to take r... (show quote)
Do you think Trump will pick up the tab for them pimping his big lie? Or will he hang them out to dry?
Nov 23, 2021 06:18:18 #
Kevyn wrote:
Do you think Trump will pick up the tab for them pimping his big lie? Or will he hang them out to dry?
Hang them out to dry without a doubt. This just goes to show that all the lawyers that pushed Trump's big lie need to watch out because no one is going to bail them out when they are hit with hefty fines...
Nov 23, 2021 07:18:03 #
Was that Judge Neureiter going over the side of the building. The judge must be gay too!! I guess justice was being served.
Nov 23, 2021 07:23:05 #
Kevyn wrote:
Do you think Trump will pick up the tab for them pimping his big lie? Or will he hang them out to dry?
The h*****gs will be the h*****gs of the Demorat political mob machine after all the harm they have done to our country is finally metted out by a moral judicial system and not an immoral group of Satanists who have stolen the 2020 e******n and now are pushing our country toward a Venezuelan $hit hole. You seem to be on board with the Satanists.
Nov 23, 2021 07:25:06 #
PeterS wrote:
Hang them out to dry without a doubt. This just goes to show that all the lawyers that pushed Trump's big lie need to watch out because no one is going to bail them out when they are hit with hefty fines...
You should be fined for speaking such nonsense and should be banned from OPP for opposing free speech and our Constitutional rights. If you oppose freedom of speech, China welcomes you.
Nov 23, 2021 08:45:14 #
PeterS wrote:
Hang them out to dry without a doubt. This just goes to show that all the lawyers that pushed Trump's big lie need to watch out because no one is going to bail them out when they are hit with hefty fines...
What they should actually face is disbarment.
Nov 24, 2021 14:53:30 #
PeterS wrote:
Boy, that's rich...a conservative having to take r... (show quote)
C*******m at its finest!!
Nov 24, 2021 14:54:22 #
Kevyn wrote:
Do you think Trump will pick up the tab for them pimping his big lie? Or will he hang them out to dry?
Not a lie! How do u like ur vegetable puppet!
Nov 24, 2021 20:04:42 #
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Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island
PeterS wrote:
Boy, that's rich...a conservative having to take r... (show quote)
This decision will be reversed on appeal.
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