Lawyers Must Pay Costs of ‘Fantastical’ Voting-Fraud Suit (2)

Aug. 4, 2021, 6:47 PM UTCUpdated: Aug. 4, 2021, 11:41 PM UTC

A federal judge in Colorado has sanctioned two lawyers who filed a “cut and paste” complaint alleging massive fraud in the November presidential election.

Magistrate Judge Reid Neureiter chastised Michigan attorney Ernest Walker and Colorado lawyer Gary Fielder for filing the proposed class action with little to back up their claims against entities that included Dominion Voting Systems and Facebook Inc.

“Albeit disorganized and fantastical, the Complaint’s allegations are extraordinarily serious and, if accepted as true by large numbers of people, are the stuff of which violent insurrections are made,” Neureiter, of the U.S. District Court for the District of ...

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