Overview

• A unanimous three-judge panel reversed last year’s arbitration award to Robert Zeidman, concluding the panel overstepped its contractual powers
• The court held that arbitrators improperly amended the unambiguous Minnesota contest agreement by relying on extrinsic evidence to impose packet capture requirements
• Judges James Loken, Lavenski Smith and L. Steven Grasz ordered the district court in St. Louis to vacate the $5 million award or conduct proceedings consistent with their ruling
• Zeidman’s counsel Brian Glasser defended the original arbitration decision and urged readers to compare the appellate opinion with the panel’s unanimous findings
• Mike Lindell hailed the decision as a win for election transparency and is pursuing appeals in separate defamation suits brought by Dominion and Smartmatic