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Aaron KellerMay 18th, 2021, 7:23 pm Former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs interviews Sidney Powell. Leaning heavily on the First Amendment and raising election controversies predating the 2020 presidential contest, Fox News Network, LLC on Tuesday filed papers to dismiss a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over the fallout of the election which removed Donald Trump from the White House. The motion to dismiss says Fox’s “responsible journalists . . . covered both sid...

Sunday, April 11, 2021 In  TSA-Tex. Surgical Assocs., L.L.P. v. Vargas, one partner sued his other partners for various claims regarding the defendants attempt to squeeze the plaintiff out of the partnership. No. 14-19-00135-CV, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS 1330 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] February 25, 2021, no pet. history). The defendants filed a motion to dismiss under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA), and the trial court denied the motion. The defendants appealed. The TC...

Mon, Apr 5th 2021 3:40pm — Mike Masnick A little over a year ago, a DC watchdog group had asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Devin Nunes over his total failure to disclose who the hell is paying for all of his various frivolous SLAPP suits. As the group, Campaign Legal Center noted, Congress is forbidden from receiving free legal services unless they have set up a Legal Expense Fund -- and at least at the time of the investigation request, Nunes had not done so, desp...

Back in July, we noted that after years of living with a pathetically weak anti-SLAPP bill, the NY legislature had finally approved a...

Fri, Mar 12th 2021 9:33am — Mike Masnick A little over a year ago we wrote about a laughably stupid SLAPP suit that the Trump campaign, represented by Charles Harder, filed against the NY Times. As we noted at the time, the lawsuit appeared to have no intention of succeeding -- it was purely performative nonsense. The lawsuit claimed that an opinion piece by Max Frankel was defamatory because it noted that whether or not there was any explicit collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia, ...

Defamation: The Weapon of Choice to Stifle Pursuit of Justice and Free Speech Defamation laws as different from ‘ordinary’ attacks on free speech. They aim to shut down critical speech by intimidating critics and undermining their active public engagement. Illustration: The Wire Women11/Mar/2021 It has been more than two weeks since Priya Ramani was acquitted in a defamation suit filed by former Union minister and journalist, M.J. Akbar. It was followed, expectedly and deservedly, by ...

Georgia family sues grocery clerk for posting about their alleged involvement in Jan 6. insurrection Kim Bellware, The Washington Post March 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail From her Washington hotel on Jan. 6, Katheryn Cagle asked for prayers and assured friends and family via Facebook that she and her mother were safe. "Yes, Mama and I are in Washington, D.C.," Cagle allegedly posted the day a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. Cagles followers reacted with thumbs-up and heart emoji, but not everyone...

Mon, Feb 22nd 2021 1:33pm — Mike Masnick As you may recall, Rep. Devin Nunes has spent the last few years suing all sorts of critics and journalists, in a vexatious bout of abusing the courts to try to stifle criticism. Most famously, Nunes sued a satirical cow on Twitter (that case is still ongoing). But in December of 2019 he sued CNN. As we noted at the time -- despite a weird column by a media critic at the Washington Post saying that this case was "halfway decent" -- the case seemed lik...

We Stand, was being dropped from the network owing to corporate downsizing. In his initial complaint, Bongino asked for "compensatory damages and punitive damages in a sum not less than $15,000,000." Bongino did not, however, explain how the article was defamatory under the law. Bonginos show had in fact been dropped, and NRATV even released a statement after Markays story was published, stating that it had made every effort to retain Bongino and would miss him. Bongino also failed to provide ...

Defamation lawsuits brought by Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC) and its local subsidiary against six environmental activists was an abuse of the legal process, the high court ruled on Tuesday.