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Todd McMurtry, the lawyer who secured settlements from CNN, NBC Universal, and The Washington Post on behalf of Covington Catholic High School teen Nick Sandmann, has joined the legal team for D.A. King and the Dustin Inman Society, who are suing the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation.

Todd McMurtry, who represented Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandmann, has joined the Dustin Inman Society defamation suit against the SPLC.

A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit holding the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) accountable over its defamatory "hate group" designation to proceed. On March 31, Senior U.S. [...]

The Southern Poverty Law Center routinely brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, but most lawsuits aiming to hold the SPLC accountable for this alleged defamation have failed.

D.A. King and the Dustin Inman Society, which sued the SPLC for defamation over the "hate group" label, have cleared a major legal hurdle.