![]() ![]() Neureiter added that the sanctions are warranted due because the plaintiffs filed the suit with a “woeful lack of investigation into the law and (under the circumstances) the facts.” “Albeit disorganized and fantastical, the Complaint’s allegations are extraordinarily serious and, if accepted as true by large numbers of people, are the stuff of which violent insurrections are made.” ![]() ![]() “In short, this was no slip-and-fall at the local grocery store,” Neureiter wrote of the lawsuit that the plaintiffs filed. The entire case was dismissed in April, and in his sanction decision Neureiter called the lawsuit “one enormous conspiracy theory.” 22, 2020 - more than a month after the presidential election and after the Electoral College had already met to vote on President Joe Biden’s victory. The sanctions are related to a case the lawyers filed on Dec. Tony Evers - as well as Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, among others. Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and Wisconsin Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Pennsylvania Gov. Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Michigan Gov. The people they sued include multiple elected officials in states Trump lost - Georgia Gov. Walker - will have to pay the to-be-determined legal fees of the 18 people and entities they sued for $160 billion in damages. “No reasonable attorney would have believed Plaintiffs, as registered voters and nothing more, had standing to bring this suit.” Reid Neureiter wrote in the 68-page decision that excoriated the lawyers who filed the lawsuit. “I do find bad faith with respect to the filing,” Judge N. A federal judge in Colorado on Wednesday sanctioned a pair of lawyers in Colorado who filed a failed lawsuit that sought to overturn ex-President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, charging the attorneys with making “patently frivolous arguments” and filing a suit that had “no plausible good faith justification.” ![]()
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