A Colorado judge on Friday denied motions to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by an election systems worker against former President Donald Trump's campaign, two of its lawyers and a handful of conser-vative media figures and outlets.

Denver District Court Judge Marie Avery Moses, in a 136-page deci-sion, rejected various arguments to throw out the lawsuit filed by Eric Coomer, who was security director at the Denver-based Dominion Vot-ing Systems. Coomer said he faced death threats after he was baselessly accused of trying to rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of President Joe Biden.

Moses wrote that "there is over-whelming evidence that an injuncwould serve the public interest because the public is harmed by the spread of defamatory information.”

Coomer’s lawsuit, filed in Denver County before Biden’s inauguration, accused the Trump campaign and lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell of spreading false stories about him.

El Paso County-based conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, the website Gateway Pundit, conservative activist Joseph Oltmann of Castle Pines, Colo., and One America News Network were among the others sued.

Oltmann, founder and president of FEC United, said he listened in on a phone conversation involving

Coomer and Antifa members, but in November said that he failed to record the conversation.

Oltmann also has denounced by members of his party for calling for the mass execution of political opponents, from Gov. Jared Polis to Republican U.S. senators who voted for last fall’s spending bill.

Dominion Voting Systems also has a $1.3 billion defamation suit outstanding against some of the parties in Coomer’s individual suit and in February, the company added Mike Lindell as a defendant, saying the Mypillow CEO aggressively promoted the theory that millions of votes were “stolen by Dominion machines.”

In April, Lindell joined with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and Rep. Ron Hanks, R-cañon City, on the steps of the Colorado state Capitol for an “election truth” rally, at which Lindell repeated allegations that Dominion “stole the 2020 election.”

The conservative news outlet Newsmax was dropped from Coomer’s lawsuit in April 2021 after it apologized and aired a statement that it had found no evidence that the accusations made against him by Trump’s team and supporters were true.

Some other conservative outlets including Fox News Channel and American Thinker also have walked back their reports on Dominion.

Dominion provides voting machines across the country, including 62 of Colorado’s 64 counties.