Defendants [...] filed a Brief in Response to [a] Motion in Limine ("Opposition") [...] [that] contained [...] "nearly thirty defective citations" [...] [At a hearing,] Mr. Kachouroff [...] was unable to respond [about the defective citations] in a manner that was satisfactory to the Court. Specifically, Mr. Kachouroff indicated that he had delegated citation checking for the Opposition to his co-counsel [...] Ms. DeMaster.
Eric Coomer, formerly of Dominion Voting Systems, sued Mike Lindell and his media company for defamation. His opponents' brief carried close to thirty defective citations: misquotations, misstatements of law, and cases that do not exist. The lawyers' explanation was that they had accidentally filed an earlier draft and that human error was to blame. Judge Wang sanctioned both of them 3,000 US dollars in July 2025. The jury separately awarded Coomer 2.3 million dollars. A year later the same lead counsel was before the same court over further citations that do not exist, which is why this one is here rather than any of the fifteen hundred others: the first sanction is what is supposed to prevent the second.
