Minneapolis (AP) – Federal Court of Appeals handed over victory to Mike Lindell on Wednesday, ruling Founder of mypillow There is no need to pay a $5 million reward to the software engineers claimed by Lindell, demonstrating China's interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
this The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled The arbitration team awarded $5 million to engineer Robert Zeidman in 2023 and $5 million to Las Vegas, who awarded Lindell the “challenge to prove Mike’s mistakes”.
“It's a great day for our country,” said the joyful Lindell in an interview. “It's a huge victory. It opens the door to get rid of these electronic voting machines and get paper voting that is manually counted.”
Lindell Lost in another situation in Colorado last month. The jury found Lindell accused him of treason for slandering a former employee of a voting equipment company and awarding $2.3 million in damages.
Lindell said he was attracting people, and he actually thought the verdict was a victory because Mypillow itself is not responsible.
President Donald Trump and his allies lose more than 50 court cases to try to overturn the 2020 election results, his own Attorney General at the time Say there is no sign of mass fraud.
As a “Website” Lindell, who hosted in 2021 at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, provided $5 million to people who were able to prove “package capture” and other data he released, had no valid data in the 2020 election.
Zeidman published a 15-page report that he said proved Lindell's claim to data. The contest judge refused to declare Zeidman the winner, so he applied for arbitration under the contest rules. A group of three arbitrators, including Lindell's name, concluded that Zeidman satisfies the rules and Grant him $5 million.
U.S. District Judge John Tunheim Confirmed the award last year. He expressed concern about how the arbitrator interprets what he called a “written contract”, but said the court had limited power to overturn the arbitration award and ordered Lindell to pay.
But the Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the arbitrators went beyond the contractual language of the official competition rules, deciding how they were interpreted rather than insisting on the document itself. The appeals court said that even if they might favor Lindell, the rules were clear.
“Whatever logic is in the logic of the panel reasoning, it runs contrary to Minnesota's law. …Equity, the Panel, or this court will not modify the terms of the contract agreed to,” the Court of Appeal wrote, and dispatched the case to the lower court to dismiss the $5 million reward.
Zeidman lawyer Brian Glasser urges people Read the arbitrator's decision “Judge yourself whether the decision of the Eighth Circuit today is more convincing, or louder, than the unanimous breach of the decision by the three arbitrators, who heard all the evidence, including the ones of Mr. Lindell's appointment.”