The judge concluded the lawsuit was filed “with objective bad faith” and made claims “that were utterly unmerited by any evidence.”
two pro-Trump attorneys Wednesday who had filed a lawsuit after the presidential election alleging widespread fraud, with the judge saying in a scathing ruling that their claims were “disorganized and fantastical.”Getty ImagesU.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neuriter ordered Ernest Walker and Gary D.
Neuriter said sanctions were warranted in the case because Walker and Fielder “did not conduct a reasonable inquiry into” whether their fraud claims were actually true, describing the lawsuit as “litigation by ‘cut-and-paste’” as the attorneys included fraud allegations from other post-election lawsuits in their complaint without speaking to the lawyers who filed those lawsuits or looking further into their claims.
The judge also awarded sanctions based on the plaintiffs’ basic legal mistakes, writing it “should have been as obvious to Plaintiffs’ counsel as it would be to a first-year civil procedure student” that state officials in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia couldn’t have been sued in Colorado for elections in their states.
Neuriter slammed the pro-Trump plaintiffs’ purported evidence as “one enormous conspiracy theory,” noting that the allegations of fraud they made had been repeatedly struck down by other courts and saying the affidavits in the lawsuit “are notable only in demonstrating no firsthand knowledge by any Plaintiff of any election fraud, misconduct, or malfeasance.”“It is difficult to look into the mind of a person and determine his motives—what precisely he was thinking,” Neuriter wrote.
dedicated to the litigation. The exact amount the attorneys will have to pay in sanctions is still to be determined based on the amount the defendants’ accrued in attorneys fees.
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