Appeals court won't let Rudy Giuliani out of Dominion executive's defamation lawsuit
Source: Law & Crime
Nov 15th, 2024, 12:47 pm
Rudy Giuliani’s legal woes continued to worsen this week. On the heels of his bankruptcy attorneys seeking to quit, a Colorado appeals court on Thursday handed down a significant victory to a former Dominion Voting Systems executive, allowing him to proceed with a defamation lawsuit against the former New York City mayor over baseless claims about rigging the 2020 election.
The ruling was issued by a three-judge panel on the Colorado Court of Appeals and the reasoning mirrored the court’s earlier decision to allow Eric Coomer to go forward with defamation suits against Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and “Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell, among others. Giuliani was among the defendants named in Coomer’s initial lawsuit but was granted a stay of appeal for himself because he was in the throes of bankruptcy proceedings in Manhattan.
Giuliani, during a Nov. 19, 2020, press conference on supposed election fraud, referred to Coomer as a “vicious, vicious man” who was “close to Antifa” and claimed Coomer “specifically [said] that they’re going to fix this election.”
In late December 2020, one month after the election and a matter of days before Jan. 6, Dr. Eric Coomer, formerly the director of product strategy and security for Dominion Voting Systems, filed a lawsuit in Denver County against Donald Trump’s campaign, two right-wing cable news networks, and a collection of Trump-allied election-deniers, claiming that the defendants conspired to defame him and intentionally inflicted “severe” emotional distress by falsely accusing him of being an “anonymous Antifa activist” hell-bent on ensuring the former president was “not going to win” the election.
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