I just saw something where Dominion systems 1.3B libel suit against Mike Lindell is being extended to the My Pillow company as well and they have a pretty good shot at being able to do this. Normally a corporation would be shielded by saying "those are the views of Mr. Lindell, not the company", but Lindell is so stupid he walked right into it:
-Lindell's rallies where he spewed the whole stolen election and made clams dominion systems changed votes for Trump to Biden, prominently featured that My Pillow sponsored them.
-Lindell as CEO is an officer of the company, and when an officer of the company speaks legally it is assumed to be speaking for the company. For example, with warranties, if Lindell said "we 100% guarantee you will like our pillow or you get your money back", and their warrantee didn't back this up ie it said you would be limited to replacing a defective pillow, they would have to give money back to people, unless the warrantee had a line in it "this warrantee excludes any other warranties, implied or explicit, including affirmations of fact". Mr Lindell as CEO/an officer, saying that would be an affirmation of fact.
How does that apply here? Nowhere did Lindell say he was speaking for himself, when introduced he was introduced as "The My Pillow Guy", and the company was prominently mentioned during the rallies (hey, why not drum up business). There were no disclaimers on any advertising, nothing, so Lindell by default could be considered to be speaking for the company.
-My Pillow as a company never put out statements before Lindell spoke saying "the views expressed by Mr. Lindell at his rallies are his own" (they have been doing it after the fact, but good luck with that). The company sponsored the rallies and issued no disclaimer. if My Pillow has a board of directors (which is rare in a privately held company) and they didn't act to put out disclaimers separating Lindell from My Pillow with his claims, legally that is them approving of his actions, would make it worse.
Ever notice that when a company sponsors a show on tv, where the directly pay for it, there will be a disclaimer saying "the views expressed here are of the writers and producers of the program, XYZ corporation is not responsible for the content".They do that because if the program involves something that could be considered libelous, by issuing that disclaimer it says outright this is not what our company claims or believes.
Lindell tied his idiotic claims to My Pillow and now both could likely face a crippling judgement. I don't think the GOP judges are going to be able to bail him out and claim that My Pillow couldn't be held liable, it would break major elements of corporate law and could cause real chaos down the road.
-Lindell's rallies where he spewed the whole stolen election and made clams dominion systems changed votes for Trump to Biden, prominently featured that My Pillow sponsored them.
-Lindell as CEO is an officer of the company, and when an officer of the company speaks legally it is assumed to be speaking for the company. For example, with warranties, if Lindell said "we 100% guarantee you will like our pillow or you get your money back", and their warrantee didn't back this up ie it said you would be limited to replacing a defective pillow, they would have to give money back to people, unless the warrantee had a line in it "this warrantee excludes any other warranties, implied or explicit, including affirmations of fact". Mr Lindell as CEO/an officer, saying that would be an affirmation of fact.
How does that apply here? Nowhere did Lindell say he was speaking for himself, when introduced he was introduced as "The My Pillow Guy", and the company was prominently mentioned during the rallies (hey, why not drum up business). There were no disclaimers on any advertising, nothing, so Lindell by default could be considered to be speaking for the company.
-My Pillow as a company never put out statements before Lindell spoke saying "the views expressed by Mr. Lindell at his rallies are his own" (they have been doing it after the fact, but good luck with that). The company sponsored the rallies and issued no disclaimer. if My Pillow has a board of directors (which is rare in a privately held company) and they didn't act to put out disclaimers separating Lindell from My Pillow with his claims, legally that is them approving of his actions, would make it worse.
Ever notice that when a company sponsors a show on tv, where the directly pay for it, there will be a disclaimer saying "the views expressed here are of the writers and producers of the program, XYZ corporation is not responsible for the content".They do that because if the program involves something that could be considered libelous, by issuing that disclaimer it says outright this is not what our company claims or believes.
Lindell tied his idiotic claims to My Pillow and now both could likely face a crippling judgement. I don't think the GOP judges are going to be able to bail him out and claim that My Pillow couldn't be held liable, it would break major elements of corporate law and could cause real chaos down the road.
