Mike Lindell Loses Appeal To Dismiss Dominion Lawsuit

Law & Crime reports:

Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and stalwart Donald Trump supporter who continues to push election conspiracy theories, has lost his appeal after a lower court refused to dismiss an election-related defamation case against him.

Dominion Voting Systems sued Lindell for $1.3 billion in February of 2021, accusing Lindell of falsely accusing the company of rigging voting machines to steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump in favor of president Joe Biden.

The Insider reports:

Lawyers for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell are dodging requests to hand over discovery material for Dominion’s $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit, according to a court filing in the sprawling defamation case.

In a filing submitted to the judge Monday night, the other lawyers in the case say that Lindell’s lawyers stopped showing up to meetings designed to hash out a schedule for the case the day after Dominion’s lawyers served them with a request for documents.

Lindell’s lawyers said they’re planning to appeal US District Judge Carl J. Nichols’s rejection of their motion to dismiss all the way to the Supreme Court, and that they wouldn’t participate in discovery until then.

NEW: Mike Lindell’s lawyers are refusing to hand over discovery material in Dominion’s lawsuit. They’ve gone cold and won’t even meet to figure out a court schedule, per new court docs.https://t.co/F496HFCQxF

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