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The United States District Court in the Northern District of California has thrown out the N500m damages registered in the United Kingdom on behalf of the general overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide Daniel Olukoya and the church against a UK-based blogger Maureen Badejo.
The court also declined personal jurisdiction over the defendants and denied plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment.
Justice Abiodun Akinyemi of an Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta had awarded N500m damages against Badejo over libellous publications against Olukoya and MFM.
But the US Court District Judge 1, Haywood Gilliam Jr., in his judgment obtained on Monday, denied the motion for default judgment and dismissed the case “for lack of personal jurisdiction.”
US court dismisses Olukoya s suit against UK-based blogger
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