The legal firm leading a heap of lawsuits for Dominion Voting Systems against promoters of false claims about its voting software, recently expanded its armory of attorneys as it prepares to go to battle against former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” about a stolen 2020 presidential election.
“There are great synergies between the work that the Susman team had done on the 2020 election and the defamation cases we were pursuing for Dominion,” [said Clare Locke].
Both firms have done good work.
For this I will ignore the use of the word “synergies.”
There are going to make more money with the defamation suits that they will ever do selling software, I am afraid the bastards are going to lay off the software engineers and hire more lawyers.
Why not sue Trump? He’s the one who spread the lies about Dominion voting machines.
And his legal defense fund has a ton of money.
Matter of timing as much as anything else.
As far as I’ve been able to track, he left the explicit call-outs of Dominion to others, and kept his comments more generic about voting machines.
Might be just enough of a veneer to make it a very hard case to make, considering that he was basically bitching about every Democratic vote anywhere in the country regardless of the vendor used.
I’m sure that Dominion sees a new path to profitability via litigation here considering what a “target rich environment” Trump and his Marching Morons have handed to them on a platinum platter.
No doubt they are taking on law firms to represent them on a contingency basis.
30% of several billion dollars will buy you a ton of top-flight legal representation that will fight tooth-and-nail to win the case(s).
Just ask the Tobacco Industry how that worked out for them.
Smartmatics spokesman is former Paul Ryan press flack Michael Steel, not to be confused with the former RNC chair and MSNBC analyst with the same name so they can hardly be accused of being partisan.
Release the Susman!!
I think that Dominion’s lawyers are going to have a difficult job in prevailing against “news” outlets like Fox. which is not to say that they can’t get it done. I don’t watch Fox or the other outlets mentioned in this story, so I don’t know if they were knowingly or recklessly reporting false information as the truth. If they were merely reporting what nuts like Sidney Powell were saying, even if by doing so they were amplifying a false narrative, then I think the 1st Amendment will be a significant hurdle for the plaintiffs to overcome.
Fox News has deep pockets.
But how much will they collect from Powell and the other lunatic lawyers? Unless they have malpractice insurance. Even then: $1.3 Billion? No way.
Several of their nightly hosts cosigned the lies. They’re going to use the Sidney/Tucker ‘no reasonable person would have believed that’ excuse (which has worked for Tucker in the past, though not when the plaintiff was a huge corporation). My guess is Fox settles for an undisclosed amount and conditions.
How about every Congressman and Senator who backs Trump?
This morning, Dominion Votings Systems attorney Stephen Shackleford joined Brian Stelter on CNN’s Reliable Sources to explain just how fucked Fox may be.
That’s very gracious of you.
Just for fun maybe, Powell’s defense has already provided plenty of laughs, and they haven’t got to the kraken yet. Besides, the money they expect to receive from Fox News and My Pillow more than covers it.
Think that’s less of a factor than them trying to get people on the record reversing claims.
Their business could be toast just on a suspicion that votes would or could be set up to not be counted accurately.
And by making them politicized as a vendor, if you were in charge of a given State’s purchases right now, and they were competing with another company that hasn’t been in the headlines, which one might you choose, all other things being equal?
This is truly existential for them and Hugo Chavez.
Well, yes–they’re having this very discussion in an Ohio county right now:
