MyPillow CEO sued by Dominion for 1.3 billion. Should be enough to ruin him.

[RoryN]

Breaking.

 

[Dribble]

It is a bad day for Republicans. One would casually say...fuck it can't get worse...and yet Republicans prove me wrong over and over

 

[LLCox]

It was interesting to watch a businessman blow his whole trip on a cancer like trump. trump doesn't give two shits on his golden toilet about that dude.

 

[siobhancan99]

These lawsuits are as farcical as the claims of election rigging. Dominion can't show any damages and certainly not 1.3 billion dollars of them. They're as fucking moronic as the cokehead pillow clown they're suing.

 

[butters]

These lawsuits are as farcical as the claims of election rigging. Dominion can't show any damages and certainly not 1.3 billion dollars of them. They're as fucking moronic as the cokehead pillow clown they're suing.

except they can show the damage... which is the whole point

 

[Dribble]

except they can show the damage... which is the whole point

And they can prove intent

 

[WillJ8787]

It was interesting to watch a businessman blow his whole trip on a cancer like trump. trump doesn't give two shits on his golden toilet about that dude.

They all want the same thing... his power. Unfortunately, they are not him and will never have it.

It's a hard lesson for some.

 

[butters]

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...-tenuous-legal-claims/?utm_source=mostpopular

and then there's this pro-trump attorney being referred to grievances committee:

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Friday pilloried a Minnesota attorney who sued former Vice President Mike Pence in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, referring him to the Committee on Grievances for possible disciplinary action.

U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia James Boasberg, an appointee of Barack Obama, said attorney Erick Kaardal failed to “sufficiently allayed the Court’s concerns regarding potential bad faith” in filing the widely criticized December action that named Pence, Congress, several swing states, and even the Electoral College as defendants. The lattermost caused quite a stir amid the legal community, as the Electoral College isn’t actually an entity you can sue.

The judge began by noting that Kaardal’s Declaration spent most of its time “supporting the suit’s theory on the unconstitutionality of the federal and state statutes at issue” but failed to directly address why. Despite explicitly disclaiming any theory of fraud, Kaardal used “scores of pages” regurgitating false and debunked claims of fraud, the judge noted.

“The only reason the Court can see for the Complaint to spend 70+ pages on irrelevant allegations of fraud, not one instance of which persuaded any court in any state to question the election’s outcome, is political grandstanding,” he wrote. “The Response never explains otherwise.”

 

[Paul_Chance]

I always picture attorney's holding their pinky to the lips and saying...."One BILLION dollars" ala Dr. Evil.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

Those who chose the cult over their country are getting what they deserve.

 

[butters]

“After hitting the jackpot with Donald Trump’s endorsement for MyPillow and after a million-dollar bet on Fox News ads had paid out handsome returns, Michael Lindell exploited another chance to boost sales: marketing MyPillow to people who would tune in and attend rallies to hear Lindell tell the ‘Big Lie’ that Dominion had stolen the 2020 election,” the complaint stated. “He is well aware of the independent audits and paper ballot recounts conclusively disproving the Big Lie. But Lindell—a talented salesman and former professional card counter—sells the lie to this day because the lie sells pillows. MyPillow’s defamatory marketing campaign—with promo codes like ‘FightforTrump,’ ’45,’ ‘Proof,’ and ‘Qanon’—has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues duping people into redirecting their election-lie outrage into pillow purchases.”

The suit also noted that Lindell sought Trump’s endorsement to promote other products unrelated to his bedding empire, including an extract from a poisonous shrub that he touted as a “miracle” cure for the COVID-19 pandemic that had been “tested by over a thousand people.”

“When pressed to provide evidence supporting his claims, Lindell was unable to do so, but claimed that there had ‘absolutely’ been Phase 1 and Phase 2 testing (there had not) and that it will ‘get[] approved by the FDA’ (it did not),” the suit stated. “Rather than approving Lindell’s plant extract as a treatment for COVID-19, the FDA issued a warning letter to its marketers, writing that the product was ‘unapproved’ and was being sold in violation of the law, and requesting that they ‘take immediate action to cease the sale’ of the product, which ‘is not generally recognized as safe and effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in its labeling.’”

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...the-lie-sells-pillows/?utm_source=mostpopular

 

[Lazaran]

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He who lives by the lie shall die by the lie.

 

[siobhancan99]

except they can show the damage... which is the whole point

You are confusing liability, with damages.

Were the statements defamatory? probably. how, exactly, did they lose 1.3 billion dollars as a result of Mike whateverthefuckhisnameis making his defamatory statement?

 

[Philthy_Phil]

You are confusing liability, with damages.

Were the statements defamatory? probably. how, exactly, did they lose 1.3 billion dollars as a result of Mike whateverthefuckhisnameis making his defamatory statement?

Try reading what the lawsuit says.

 

[siobhancan99]

Try reading what the lawsuit says.

I have read the complaint. in concrete terms, the complaint sets out approximately 2 million dollars in concrete expenditures that may or may not have been reasonable. see p 155-156 Dominion then further asserts loss of business revenue projected at a present value of 200 million dollars based on the assertion that some states will review their contracts. See p 159 They cannot as yet establish that that review process will actually result in lost revenue.

Further, they assert the total value of the enterprise was between 450-600 million, so even assuming, arguendo, that the entire value of dominion is destroyed (which is absurd on its face) then the damages would be limited to substantially less than 1.3 billion dollars.

So since I have actually read the complaint, I ask you again.. how do you get to 1.3?

 

[Lazaran]

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Is the number REALLY the issue here???

Take a zero off. Is that better???

 

[siobhancan99]

it is.

I'll share with you my prediction. Dominion is going to settle with him for "an undisclosed amount" which will not really in any meaningful way affect anyone's life. Millions of moronic leftists will titter about Mike Lindell's "destruction"in the same way that millions of moronic right wing nutjobs congratulated themselves on that smug prick Sandman "owning the libs" with his settlement. Both settlements (sandman and dominion) are likely for 1000 dollars with 140 pages of "everyone agrees nobody did anything wrong and if anyone says how much we settled for man you're in so much trouble" language.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I have read the complaint. in concrete terms, the complaint sets out approximately 2 million dollars in concrete expenditures that may or may not have been reasonable. see p 155-156 Dominion then further asserts loss of business revenue projected at a present value of 200 million dollars based on the assertion that some states will review their contracts. See p 159 They cannot as yet establish that that review process will actually result in lost revenue.

Further, they assert the total value of the enterprise was between 450-600 million, so even assuming, arguendo, that the entire value of dominion is destroyed (which is absurd on its face) then the damages would be limited to substantially less than 1.3 billion dollars.

So since I have actually read the complaint, I ask you again.. how do you get to 1.3?

So you stopped reading before page 115?


https://assets.documentcloud.org/do...ion-v-my-pillow-michael-lindell-complaint.pdf

WHEREFORE, Dominion respectfully requests that the Court enter an award of not less
than $1,303,470,000 and judgment in its favor, and against all Defendants jointly and severally, as
follows:
(a) awarding Dominion compensatory damages of not less than $651,735,000;
(b) awarding Dominion punitive damages of not less than $651,735,000;
(c) awarding Dominion all expenses and costs, including attorneys’ fees;
(d) granting a narrowly tailored permanent injunction requiring the removal of all
the Defendants’ statements that are determined to be false and defamatory and
enjoining the Defendants from repeating such statements or engaging in any
further deceptive trade practices relating to Dominion; and
(e) such other and further relief as the Court deems appropriate

 

[siobhancan99]

No i read it. I'm just capable of understanding what people ask for and what they can get are entirely different.

 

[Lazaran]

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So a 1.3 billion dollar lawsuit is going to be reduced to $1,000???

Okaaaaay.

The Sandmann lawsuit was a joke compared to the serious nature of Dominion's claim against Lindell.

Apples to watermelons

 

[siobhancan99]

hardly. The lawsuit is a joke and it isn't intended to destroy lindell or even get money out of him. The lawsuit's purpose is a settlement, so that when facing state reviews of their contracts dominion can point to the fact that Lindell settled with them.

This is PR and marketting. It's just moronic in that it asks for the world.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

$200M in loss over a 5 year projection plus punitive and a grab at headlines - whatever. It is what the lawyers do.

I'm far more interested in the punitive damages being awarded and bankrupting the fucking asshole then trying to unwind the value loss to Dominion - although clearly there are damages and they are able to be estimated and may be awarded. The suit has merit.

 

[Lazaran]

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Dominions brand is mud in the eyes of 70,000,000 plus Americans.

That's no joke.

 

[siobhancan99]

$200M in loss over a 5 year projection plus punitive and a grab at headlines - whatever. It is what the lawyers do.

I'm far more interested in the punitive damages being awarded and bankrupting the fucking asshole then trying to unwind the value loss to Dominion - although clearly there are damages and they are able to be estimated and may be awarded. The suit has merit.

The suit has merit in that his statements were defamatory. Linking his defamatory statements to their actual losses is another matter entirely. also punitive damages are rare. They make an interesting case for it, in trying to link his statements to an attempt to sell pillows but its hardly a slam dunk.

Also, Lindell is not the sole source of these rumors about them. He has to be the proximate and but for cause of damages that are at this point speculative and may never appear. THey have a very very hard road.

As for Americans not liking Dominion, the contracts are likely long enough term that there will be something else stuck in John Q. Public's craw by the time it comes around to renew. They wll be yesterday's news and the expense of switching companies will mean they get renewed.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

The suit has merit in that his statements were defamatory. Linking his defamatory statements to their actual losses is another matter entirely. also punitive damages are rare. They make an interesting case for it, in trying to link his statements to an attempt to sell pillows but its hardly a slam dunk.

Also, Lindell is not the sole source of these rumors about them. He has to be the proximate and but for cause of damages that are at this point speculative and may never appear. THey have a very very hard road.

As for Americans not liking Dominion, the contracts are likely long enough term that there will be something else stuck in John Q. Public's craw by the time it comes around to renew. They wll be yesterday's news and the expense of switching companies will mean they get renewed.

He crossed the line when he released "Absolute Proof" as far as providing a linkage between himself and their losses, IMO>

He better hope I am not on the jury.