Judge removes election-denying lawyer from Dominion defamation case for 'egregious misconduct'

(CNN) A judge barred an indicted, election-denying lawyer from being involved in one of Dominion Voting Systems’ 2020 election defamation cases after she publicly leaked the company’s internal emails.

The lawyer, Stefanie Lambert, had represented former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in the lawsuit, which Dominion filed because he has repeatedly accused the voting technology company, falsely, of rigging the 2020 election against former President Donald Trump.

Federal Judge Moxila Upadhyaya said Tuesday in a searing 62-page ruling that she was removing Lambert from the case because of her “truly egregious misconduct,” concluding that she “flagrantly and repeatedly disregarded court orders” by publicly disclosing “thousands, if not millions” of internal Dominion documents without any legal justification.

“Lambert’s actions were intentional and clearly meant to inflict the harm that has resulted,” Upadhyaya wrote, adding that “this Court cannot allow such intentional, dangerous, and relentless misconduct to continue.”

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