A panel of federal appellate judges upheld sanctions against two attorneys behind a failed lawsuit that claimed without evidence that the 2020 election was tainted by election rigging.

Judges Veronica Rossman and Timothy Tymkovich, and Chief Judge Jerome Holmes of the US. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said a lower court didn’t abuse its discretion when it ordered lawyers Gary Fielder and Ernest Walker to pay a total of $186,000 in attorneys fees split between Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, Michigan, Pennsylvania and the Center for Tech and Civic Life over frivolous litigation the pair brought in December 2020. Walker and Fielder filed the suit in Colorado federal court on behalf of several registered voters who claimed the 2020 election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden.

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