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Dominion Voting Systems said this week in a*court filing*that there was no "realistic possibility" that it would settle its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and the pro-Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
The company made its position clear in a new filing Monday night as part of the company's lawsuits against the trio for pushing an array of conspiracy theories about the election-technology company's role in the 2020 election
"Given the devastating harm to Plaintiffs, the lack of remorse shown by Defendants, and the fact that many of them continue to double down on their lies, Plaintiffs do not believe any realistic possibility of settlement exists," lawyers for the company wrote in the filing.
In the same filing, lawyers representing Powell and Giuliani reiterated their positions that their claims about Dominion's role in the election didn't meet the legal standard for defamation
"Powell and Giuliani are open to settlement discussions once discovery is complete and Dominion realizes that its claims are without merit and that it has no damages legally attributable to Powell and Giuliani," the filing said. "Powell and Giuliani have nothing to show remorse for and dispute that they have lied about anything."
The claims were made in a joint filing in which the parties proposed a schedule to US District Judge Carl J. Nichols, who is overseeing Dominion's array of defamation lawsuits, to move the cases forward. In August, Nichols denied attempts from Powell, Giuliani, and Lindell to dismiss Dominion's lawsuits against them. He later consolidated the case so they would move to trial together
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Lawyers for both Powell and Giuliani said in the filing that they planned to participate in discovery for the lawsuits, though Giuliani's attorneys said the FBI was in*possession of his digital files. The FBI raided his Manhattan apartment and office last year for a separate investigation into whether he broke lobbying laws.
Lindell has*refused to participate in the discovery process. He told Insider on Tuesday night that he planned to appeal Nichols' denial of his motion to dismiss the lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court