Due to a history of dishonest promotional contests, contest law in the US is actually pretty strict. It doesn’t surprise me at all that if you put on a contest and misrepresent some aspect of it, the court will not be happy.

> his witnesses gave conflicting answers to critical questions like “What exactly was in the data you provided to the experts and how was it related to the November 2020 U.S. presidential election?”

(As to “his lawyers must have really screwed up”, given what I know about Lindell, my priors on that are high)