A Texas-based researcher has filed several lawsuits against lawyers who represented defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol , alleging some of the attorneys "pirated" her research and used it in court — without paying for it.

The lawsuits, filed by Lindsey Olson, allege the defense attorneys infringed on the copyright on her research studies when they made filings in court seeking a change of venue for Capitol riot defendants.

Olson's research firm produced a 26-page study in April 2022 for a defense lawyer in a Jan. 6 Oathkeepers case to argue for a change of venue out of Washington, D.C. Among the many findings in Olson's survey, respondents in Washington, D.C. were likely to characterize Jan. 6 as an "insurrection," "racially motivated" or "planned in advance"

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