Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell could move forward after the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider Lindell’s attempt to block the case.
No vote counting has been announced. Judge Kitangi Brown Jackson was not involved in the case.
Dominion is seeking $1.3 billion in damages, claiming it was hurt by baseless statements by Lindell and other allies of former President Donald Trump that Dominion rigged its hardware for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Lindell denied any wrongdoing.
Lindell was appealing a lower court ruling that had previously said Dominion’s suit could go forward.
In that ruling, Justice Karl Nichols wrote that “in addition to claiming that Lindell’s claims are inherently improbable, that his sources are unreliable, and that he failed to acknowledge the validity of the countervailing evidence, Dominion alleged numerous cases in which Lindell told the public to purchase MyPillow products after making his allegations of election fraud. and to provide MyPillow promotional codes related to these theories.”
Nichols wrote that the company “adequately claimed that Lindell made his allegations knowing they were false or with reckless disregard for the truth.”
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