ST.LOUIS, Mo. — A federal appeals court has let MyPillow pitchman Mike Lindell off the hook for a $5 million arbitration award. A Colorado man had taken up Lindell’s $5 million challenge for anyone who could fault his logic that the 2020 election was rigged through voting machine manipulation. A Colorado man did so. He sued Lindell to pay up. A Minnesota arbitration board found against Lindell. Now the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overruled the arbitration board. The court cited an offbeat technicality in Minnesota law. Said the judges: “Whatever one might think of the logic of the arbitration panel’s reasoning, it is contrary to Minnesota law.” The Colorado man’s suit was one of several against Lindell for whacky claims about the 2020 election. He’s still staring down defamation cases brought by voting machine companies. The companies want $1 billion-plus in libel damages.
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