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Dominion Lawsuit Against Kraken Dead Enders Keeps Getting Weirder

The Kraken is dead. Long live the Kraken.

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iStock_000030723782_LargeThe problem with suing crazy people is that they tend to bring their crazy to court with them. And so it is with Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against a whole slew of weirdos, including Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, who slimed the company after the 2020 election.

Consider this excerpt from a March 12 email to Judge Carl Nichols, attesting that protected discovery material from the civil case had appeared in a criminal matter involving Byrne’s counsel Stefanie Lambert Junttila:

It has recently come to our attention that Confidential Discovery Material produced by Dominion in this case has been disclosed in a public filing in Michigan by Stefanie Lambert. Ms. Lambert had access to Confidential Discovery Material as an attorney for Patrick Byrne who was assisting in this litigation. Prior to her gaining access to any Confidential Discovery Material, she signed an Undertaking in which she agreed to use all Discovery Material only as permitted by the Protective Order. Attached is a copy of her signed Undertaking.

Dominion’s Confidential Discovery Material appears to have been shared with a non-party (i.e., Sheriff Dar Leaf of Barry County, Michigan) by Stefanie Lambert and publicly disclosed by her as part of a filing she made in the criminal case styled People of the  State of Michigan vs. Stefanie Lynn Lambert Junttila, which is currently pending before the Sixth Circuit Court in Oakland County, Michigan as Case Number 2023-285759-FH….

Oh, dear.

Michigan lawyer Stefanie Lambert Junttila was among the crew that got sanctioned by Judge Linda Parker in 2021 for filing patently absurd affidavits in that state’s “Kraken” suit to overturn President Biden’s victory. She’s currently being sued by a cyberforensics expert who alleges that she refused to pay and publicly defamed him when he refused to say that voting machines in Pennsylvania had “cheat codes” which flipped the election to Biden. And Lambert Junttila was recently charged by a special counsel in Michigan with undue possession of a voting machine, conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine, conspiracy to commit unauthorized access to a computer system and willfully damaging a voting machine. On top of which, she now has an active warrant in that case after failing to appear multiple times.

With this background, it’s not entirely surprising that things went sideways when Byrne swapped Lambert Junttila in for his lawyers from McGlinchey Stafford.

“Dominion has to date received no assurance from Mr. Byrne’s counsel as to whether Ms. Lambert continues to retain Dominion confidential information or whether she has stopped violating the protective order or intends to take any remedial measures to cabin and remedy this breach,” Susman Godfrey’s Elizabeth Haddaway wrote in the March 12 email, adding that Lambert had “affirmatively confirm[ed] in her email that it was her client, Mr. Byrne, who directed violation of the protective order, and her statements and conduct indicate every apparent intention of continuing to violate it.”

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This case was already off the rails thanks to Giuliani’s bankruptcy. And before that, Mike Lindell first filed a counterclaim in Minnesota seeking to dismiss the DC case; then when that suit got booted, he filed counterclaim in DC interpleading Dominion’s direct competitor Smartmatic; and then refused to cooperate with discovery for months on the bizarre theory that denial of a motion to dismiss entitles the loser to an immediate interlocutory appeal.

It’s hard to imagine how this clown car could get crazier, but … you know it’s coming.

US Dominion Inc. v. Byrne [Docket via Court Listener]
US Dominion Inc. v. Powell [Docket via Court Listener]

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos substack and podcast.

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