Posted on 01/09/2021 6:38:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Dominion Voting Systems announced Friday it sued pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, claiming she damaged the company’s reputation in her election lawsuits where she claimed votes in several swing-states were manipulated in favor of President-elect Joseph R. Biden.
“Lies were told about government election officials, elections workers, and Dominion Voting Systems. Those lies have consequences. They have served to diminish the credibility of U.S. elections. They have subjected officials and Dominion employees to harassment and death threats. And they have severely damaged the reputation of our company,” said John Poulos, CEO of Dominion.
“Today is the first step to restore our good name and faith in elections by holding those responsible to account. We intend to pursue justice vigorously to its rightful end,” he added.
Ms. Powell argued in federal court filings in Georgia, Michigan and Arizona that the company had ties to software developed by the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in order to “steal” elections.
Her lawsuit alleged the company’s machines could be connected to the internet in violation of election laws.
Dominion is suing Ms. Powell for defamation, which aims to hold individuals liable in court for intentionally spreading lies that cause damage to the reputation of another.
Thomas Clare, a partner at Clare Locke LLP representing Dominion, said even when confronted with recounts and evidence of no election wrongdoing, Ms. Powell continued to spread misinformation.
“When we put her on formal notice of the facts, told her Dominion employees were receiving death threats because of her false claims, and asked her to retract, she doubled down and continued with her media and fundraising campaign,” he said. “In my decades of practice as a defamation lawyer, I have never seen clearer and more convincing evidence of actual malice.”
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Discovery is going to be fun!
I am guesing their strategy is favorable judge shopping and getting a massie amount of stuff barred from evidence.
“Discovery is going to be fun!”
Stupendous.
We knew this development days ago. It was to the tune of $1.3 BILLION with a ‘B’.
Either Sidney Powell is bat-s*it crazy or she has something. At this point, I’m “hope-porned” out.
Discovery ain’t just a cable channel! :)
Counter sue for four Trillion. That is the US federal budget that Dominion f@cked Trump & his supporters out of controlling. Then get real discovery including the actual machines, all of them used to vote. Unaltered!
That was my first thought, also. The headline alone made me smile.
Filing a lawsuit is defamatory by definition
A countersuit accusing you of saying mean things in relation to your case is absurd
Discovery would be fun. You can bet they’ve already scrubbed their email servers and their development servers. That’s why they’ve waited so long.
Discovery?
No proof of what she has asserted has ever been allowed in court, and I doubt that will change.
They have a slam dunk case against her.
Normally, this would be crazy because of discovery. So, some damning stuff comes out in discovery. So what? Who will do anything with it? The media? Lol. The FBI? Lol. She needs to move to somewhere without extradition.
The courts said she had no standing and kept her evidence out of the court on that basis.
Dominion just opened the door to the courts for whatever evidence she has plus everything Dominion has managed to keep to themselves so far.
The case won’t be about deciding the election but it will be all about what Dominion did and didn’t do.
Spoliation of evidence.
Powell is pretty good at turning over rocks that the bugs underneath don’t want to happen. This is going to be interesting. I like the idea of counter suing for 4 trillion.
Karma’s a bitch. Discovery is her evil twin.
By the time there’s Discovery there won’t be an outlet to show it to the world. MSM and big companies on on the verge of controlling 100% of the information dissemination.
Yeah, SIDNEY damaged their reputation, I'm sure the election cheating had nothing to do with it.
I only got a B in Civil Procedure, BUT I’m pretty sure you can’t sue a lawyer for defamation in the context of criminal or civil litigation matters. Dominion has no standing. Plus, it is a public entity with limited ability to sue over defamation. A public person/entity is different than a private citizen. AND they have to prove all the elements of defamation, of which most of the time includes that the person knew they were lying and spoke anyways. I’m also pretty sure dominion can’t sue on behalf of it’s private citizen employees. If dominion wasn’t injured, the court has no way to rectify the situation, and thereby, no standing.
And, isn’t Sidney a citizen/resident of Texas? These states have no jurisdiction over her (or her property) (pending long arm statutes which idk). Don’t they have to sue her in Texas?
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