Two attorneys are demanding that an appellate court take the extraordinary step of forcing a California federal judge to allow them to represent ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne at an upcoming trial in Hunter Biden's defamation lawsuit, claiming that they know the defendant's case better than anyone else on earth.
Stefanie Lambert, under indictment for allegedly trying to tamper with voting machines used in the 2020 election and previously disqualified from representing Byrne in a Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit for "relentless misconduct," and Peter Ticktin, one of the attorneys sanctioned in Donald Trump's failed RICO lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a writ of mandamus directing U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson to grant their pro hac