MyPillow founder Mike Lindell's attorneys have been slapped with fines.
A federal judge has fined two of Mike Lindell's attorneys $3,000 each for using artificial intelligence to prepare court documents.
The papers filed back in February included many errors. Judge Nina Wang pointed out about 30 defective citations in a brief. The defects ranged from failing to include basic court information to citations of cases that do not exist.
The Lindell case ended last month when a federal jury ruled in favor of a former director at Dominion Voting Systems, who said Lindell defamed him by spreading a conspiracy theory that he rigged the 2020 election against Donald Trump.
Lindell has been ordered to pay more than $2 million in damages adding to a growing list of judgements against Lindell who has said he used to be worth about $60 million before he started speaking out about the 2020 election, and now he has nothing and is $10 million in debt.
The Chaska, Minnesota-based MyPillow has also had issues. In Janauary, Minnesota judge ordered MyPillow to pay nearly $778,000 for unpaid bills and other costs to package delivery service DHL, which had sued the company that’s synonymous with Lindell.
In March of 2024, a court ordered the eviction of MyPillow from a suburban Minneapolis warehouse that it formerly used. Lindell said at the time that it was just a formality because the landlord wanted to take the property back.
Earlier in 2024, Lindell faced a setback when a federal judge affirmed a $5 million arbitration award in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. Lindell acknowledged that January that Fox News stopped running MyPillow commercials amid a billing dispute.