SCOTUS Rejects QAnon Lawsuit Against Dominion

Law & Crime reports:

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declined to take up a case where a group of voters sued a private and prominent voting machine company under the statute that authorizes federal civil rights lawsuits to be filed against government agents and state actors.

In an orders list, with no discussion or noted dissent, the nation’s high court denied certiorari in the case stylized as Kevin O’Rourke, et al. v. Dominion Voting Systems, et al., effectively dismissing the case.

A basic tenet of U.S. civil law, however, is that constitutional claims typically only apply to state action. In other words, a lawsuit alleging that a private actor violated the U.S. Constitution is likely to fail.

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