Sidney Powell tries to bury defamation case by demanding massive document dumps: filing

Election denialist and former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is tussling with voting tech giant Dominion over discovery protocol in the company's billion-dollar defamation case against her and other right-wing figures, Law&Crime reported Wednesday.

In a filing to U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, Dominion accused defendants Powell, One America News (OAN), former OAN host and Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, and former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne of trying to “gin up overbroad requests to force an opponent to weed out irrelevant material."

“[T]he defamatory statements Dominion is suing over overlap among Defendants. As a result, Defendants are each trying to prove the truth of those statements — most significantly that Dominion’s voting machines were used to rig the 2020 Presidential Election. Again, all Defendants are trying to prove those defenses with expansive requests for documents from Dominion’s files about Dominion’s operations, activities, and customers," Dominion wrote, adding that their “efficient” proposed discovery protocols are “just.”

"The core purpose of the proposed discovery protocol is to find a path forward that advances these cases to trial,” Dominion's lawyers wrote. “Defendants should not be allowed to withhold basic information about their approach to discovery, and then subject Dominion to lop-sided requirements that would impose a massive burden and require re-doing work, at enormous cost, for no good reason.”

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Dominion is suing Powell and others over claims they made that linked the company's voting machines to allegations of election fraud in 2020.

From Law&Crime: "On Oct. 20, Dominion filed a proposed discovery stipulation seeking to move past 'five main areas of disagreement' between the parties, particularly on the subject of 'custodian interviews,' relevance and responsiveness reviews, search term 'hit' reports, search date ranges, and production of texts."

But on Tuesday, Powell accused Dominion of "hiding" evidence" and engaging in “histrionics" and “revisionist history."

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“Dominion’s revisionist history of the parties’ discussions surrounding discovery is riddled with inaccuracies, if not blatant falsity,” Powell said through her attorney Joshua A. Mooney. “Indeed, if Dominion’s quest to strip away discovery requirements of the Federal Rules were so just, it begs the question as to why Dominion must engage in its histrionics?”

Read the full report over at Law&Crime.