Vacation, mistaken filing led to order to show cause, lawyers for MyPillow CEO say

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Trip, mistaken submitting led to order to indicate trigger, attorneys for MyPillow CEO say

By Debra Cassens Weiss

April 29, 2025, 2:29 pm CDT

Human error led attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to file a draft doc with incorrect case citations as an alternative of the ultimate model, in keeping with a response to a federal decide’s order to indicate trigger.

The attorneys didn’t notice that that they had filed the incorrect doc, an early draft with out corrections, till questioning 55 days later by the decide, in keeping with their April 25 response.

Law360 has the story.

U.S. District Decide Nina Y. Wang of the District of Colorado had ordered the attorneys on April 23 to indicate trigger why they shouldn’t be referred for self-discipline. Wang mentioned she recognized “practically 30 faulty citations” of circumstances, together with citations to circumstances that don’t exist, within the attorneys’ Feb. 10 transient.

Lawyer Christopher I. Kachouroff mentioned in a declaration his co-counsel filed the draft doc as an alternative of the ultimate model that they “had rigorously cite-checked and edited.” On the time, Kachouroff was on a one-week trip to Mexico, the place there have been “limitations on web service.”

However what occurred wasn’t clear, Kachouroff mentioned, when he was questioned in courtroom by Wang. Kachouroff was “taken by full shock” as a result of he was unaware of the error, he mentioned within the declaration.

“Within the face of the courtroom’s detailed questioning, I used to be completely flustered and embarrassed, and resulting from my ignorance of what was happening, discovered myself confused,” Kachouroff mentioned.

Kachouroff mentioned he routinely makes use of synthetic intelligence to research the construction and the logic of authorized arguments. He doesn’t, nonetheless, depend on AI to do authorized analysis or discover circumstances.

“No matter whether or not I take advantage of AI in a specific pleading,” he wrote, “I all the time conduct verification of citations earlier than submitting.”

Kachouroff and his co-counsel, Jennifer T. DeMaster, are in search of go away to exchange the draft doc with the proper one.

Lindell is being sued for defamation by Eric Coomer, a former govt with Dominion Voting Techniques. He alleges that Lindell and his associated corporations are “among the many most prolific vectors of baseless conspiracy theories claiming election fraud within the 2020 election.”

Lindell allegedly amplified false allegations that Coomer might have been concerned in a rigged election and a prison conspiracy, resulting in “credible demise threats” towards him and banishment from the elections trade, Coomer’s second amended grievance alleges.

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