Patrick Byrne appears on Emerald Robinson's LindellTV show in July 2026 (court exhibit).
Before Hunter Biden won a defamation lawsuit against Patrick Byrne by default, his attorneys likened the ex-Overstock CEO to prominent adjudicated defamers who "continued public dissemination" of their false claims despite facing substantial legal liabilities.
Now, the voting machine company formerly known as Dominion is using the same strategy, calling attention to Byrne's defiant appearances on Mike Lindell's platform.
Dominion, "rebranded" as Liberty Vote after a sale, recently moved for a formal default judgment against Byrne in Washington, D.C., clearly frustrated by years of noncompliance and court drama in a lingering defamation action over the 2020 election.
The motion, filed on Aug. 13 in U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols' court, said that Byrne has "sustained and admitted commitment to violating this Court's rules and orders," making it "impossible for this case to continue."
"Plaintiffs thus respectfully request that the Court enter default judgment against him and schedule a short jury trial on damages only," the motion reads.
The filing provides a litany of examples of Byrne's remarks on LindellTV in recent months, such as "I just violated some federal judge's orders. I don't care" and "[s]crew you, judge. I'm ignoring your orders."
As Law&Crime has explained at length, Byrne's complaint largely stems from U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya's ouster of his "Kraken" lawyer Stefanie Lambert from the case in 2024 — following a massive discovery breach.
Liberty Vote has finally had enough, and its lawyers with Susman Godfrey are urging Nichols to act accordingly, as the Donald Trump-appointed judge has in a case against the MyPillow CEO.
In one appearance on "The Absolute Truth," Emerald Robinson's LindellTV show, Byrne suggested the magistrate is compromised because of her past legal work for Nicolas Maduro's government in Venezuela.
"I want to take these guys in and give them a thrashing in a D.C. courtroom that goes down in history, notwithstanding the prophylactic efforts of this smelly Indian mob lawyer, who's been protecting — a magistrate judge protecting them," Byrne was quoted saying on June 25. "And shame on Judge Nichols, you idiot, you deep state idiot, who's been over — who had a mob lawyer from Venezuela acting as the impartial judge in our case. Screw you, judge. I'm ignoring your orders."
Liberty Vote said Byrne "made one thing absolutely clear: He will not follow this Court's orders," even if that means "sharing the entire database of Plaintiffs' produced documents so scores of those documents could be posted on the Internet."
The remedy for that is an entry of default, just as occurred in Georgia poll workers' defamation case against Rudy Giuliani, the voting technology company says.
"Nobody put Mr. Byrne to that decision but himself," the filing continues. "To the contrary, this Court gave Mr. Byrne extended opportunities to show that he could—and would—do just the opposite. But Mr. Byrne made his choice."