BG Files Cert Petition to U.S. Supreme Court in $5 Million Mike Lindell Challenge
Bailey & Glasser, LLP client Robert Zeidman has taken his fight for accountability against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to the nation’s highest court. This week, Bailey Glasser partners Brian A. Glasser, firm founder, Cary Joshi, Commercial & Environmental Litigation Practice Group Leader, Gregory Porter, ERISA, Employee Benefits & Trust Litigation Practice Group Leader, partner Ryan Jenny, and co-counsel Peter Stris and Matthew Seligman of the law firm Stris & Maher filed a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States on Zeidman’s behalf following the Eighth Circuit’s reversal of his $5 million arbitration victory over Mike Lindell for his “Prove Mike Wrong Challenge.”
In a recent Slate op-ed, Zeidman announced his intention to petition the Supreme Court, making it clear that the case is about far more than money. “My effort to overturn this decision is not about the money. This case is about our country and its principles,” he wrote, emphasizing that Lindell’s lies about the U.S. voting system distract from real voting issues. He also stresses the decision is contrary to the purpose of binding arbitration, arguing that the appellate ruling upends the century-old Federal Arbitration Act by overruling a binding arbitration award, granted only in rare circumstances.
Zeidman, a computer forensics expert, won the contest Lindell staged during his 2021 Cyber Symposium, which promised $5 million to anyone who could prove Lindell’s so-called election data was not what he claimed. Zeidman produced a detailed expert report showing that the files Lindell provided contained no election-related information and could not possibly represent 2020 election data.
However, Lindell failed to pay the $5 million contest prize, and Zeidman hired Bailey Glasser to represent him before a three-member arbitration panel. The panel, which included an arbitrator selected by Lindell, unanimously ruled in Zeidman’s favor in April 2023, finding that he had “unequivocally” disproved Lindell’s claims and that Lindell’s refusal to pay the $5 million award breached the contest rules. The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota confirmed the award in full.
But in July 2025, the Eighth Circuit vacated the binding arbitration award, holding that the arbitrators had exceeded their authority by interpreting certain contest terms using contest advertising material instead of only the contest rules. The result, however, would have required contestants to prove that there was “no connection whatsoever” between the data Lindell provided and the 2020 presidential election, an unreasonable request and one the arbitrators determined would make the challenge unwinnable and “no contest at all.”
It is this incorrect decision that Zeidman and Bailey Glasser are now challenging before the Supreme Court.
Read Zeidman’s full Slate Op-Ed here.
Read the petition for certiorari below.
For more information on this case, view the links below:
Bailey Glasser Secures $5 Million Award Against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell For Election Fraud Claims
WaPo: “Mike Lindell Must Pay Man $5M in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ Challenge, Judge says”