Dominion sued Sidney Powell for Defamation, will she be allowed 'discovery' if this goes to trial?
Of course.
It will not go well.
And by the way, the lawyer handling this for Dominion is Thomas A. Clare of Clare Locke, one of the top defamation firms in the country (see
Thomas A. Clare, P.C. | Clare Locke LLP).
You know who Sidney Powell has?
L. Lin Wood, the batshit crazy Trump lawyer who literally misspelled a one-sentence court submission.
Powell is so far beyond fucked that you don’t even want to think about it.
My prediction is that the first thing we are going to see is an immediate court action by her insurer, who will argue that because she breached professional ethics she is in violation of her insurance covenants and that the insurer is not liable. I believe that they will win handily.
At that point she will no longer be able to practice law, since you cannot practice law without insurance. She will have no insurance coverage to pay for the current suit. She will quickly be broke and will be truly twisting in the wind.
To address the actual question, just the discovery process could cost her a well over a million dollars in legal fees and incidentals.
I expect that following that realization, the plaintiffs will probably offer Powell a deal in exchange for her full and frank testimony against Giuliani and Trump(s), who are the real big fish here. Even Powell will realize that this is her only way out.
BTW this article is an excellent and in-depth ovieview:
Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against pro-Trump election attorney Sidney Powell