Judge Orders Crunch Hearing in Mike Lindell, Rudy Giuliani Case

A judge is to hold a hearing on Tuesday in a multibillion dollar lawsuit against some of Donald Trump’s most prominent supporters, including Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell.
Voting machine company, Dominion Inc., claims in a Washington, D.C. court that key Trump allies made false claims that Dominion’s voting machines were rigged in Joe Biden’s favor in the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion is suing Trump’s 2020 campaign attorneys Giuliani and Sidney Powell as well as former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne and Lindell; Lindell’s company, My Pillow and broadcast company Herring Networks, Inc. doing business as One America News [OAN] Network.
It is also suing the network’s owners Robert Herring, Sr. and his son Charles Herring and One America News journalists Chanel Rion and Christina Bobb.
All of the defendants have publicly denied any wrongdoing.
Newsweek sought email comment on Monday from lawyers for Lambert, Powell, Byrne, Lindell, OAN, Rion and Bobb and from Giuliani’s spokesman.
Dominion is suing Giuliani and Powell for $1.3 billion each and all the other defendants for hundreds of millions of dollars.
There was has been a long-standing dispute about how much each side has to disclose and Washington, D.C. federal judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya is holding Tuesday’s hearing in an attempt to overcome the impasse.
All the parties agreed in joint filing on Friday that there are still outstanding disclosure disputes.
Areas of dispute include disclosure protocol “specific disputes involving Dominion and OAN and “specific disputes involving Dominion and Byrne.”
Upadhyaya, removed Byrne’s lawyer from the case on August 14.
She found that attorney Stefanie Lambert repeatedly violated the court’s protective order over Dominion documents and had engaged in a pattern of misrepresentation.
Lambert, a Trump supporter, allegedly gave Dominion documents disclosed in the case to someone who posted them online and also submitted them in a separate criminal case in Michigan in which Lambert is accused of illegal interference in the 2020 presidential election.
In Friday’s filing, the parties reference the Lambert dismissal.
“Although predecessor counsel for Patrick Byrne were included in the correspondence surrounding the discovery disputes described herein, Dominion notes that Mr. Byrne did not have counsel of record at the time this Joint Status Report was prepared/submitted and as such they were not included in this joint submission,” they state.
On Sunday, Upadhyaya ordered the parties to appear “for a virtual discovery status hearing on August 20, 2024.”
Bobb has sought a partial stay on the case to prepare for her Arizona trial on charges of illegally seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election result.
Bobb denies the charges.
On August 7, Dominion filed a brief opposing a delay in the defamation case against Bobb.
“Forty-one months after Dominion brought its case, in April 2024, Bobb was indicted by the Arizona Attorney General in Maricopa County, Arizona. The 9-count indictment does not so much as mention the word ‘Dominion.’ Instead, it charges Bobb and 17 co-defendants with a conspiracy to submit a fraudulent slate of Trump/Pence electors from Arizona to Congress on January 6, 2021,” Dominion’s filing states.