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This matters.
Look who's getting conservabucks.
Turns out lying and filing SLAPP lawsuits have costs.
The core of modern conservatism is dishonesty. and violence.
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A federal judge in California has ordered Herring Networks, the parent company of far-right conservative media organization One America News Network (OAN), to pay MSNBC and host Rachel Maddow $250,000 in attorney’s fees stemming from a defamation lawsuit that was dismissed last year.
Herring in July 2019 filed a lawsuit against Maddow which claimed the liberal host had defamed OAN when she discussed reports that one of the network’s contributors also worked for the Russia state news organization Sputnik. Maddow went on to state that OAN “literally is paid Russian propaganda,” which OAN’s parent company claimed was false and defamatory. Herring, the parent company, then filed a defamation lawsuit seeking $10 million.
Attorneys representing Maddow and MSNBC responded by filing a special motion to strike the case under California’s Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (Anti-SLAPP) law. Such measures are meant to prevent people and companies from using the courts to stifle cons utionally protected First Amendment speech.
Siding against OAN, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant, an appointee of President Barack Obama, dismissed the suit with prejudice. Bashant reasoned that there was “no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow’s statement.”
Under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, defendants who prevail on a special motion to toss a defamation case are en led to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs related to extracting themselves from unsound claims.
The court calculated that Maddow’s team of high-priced attorneys from the law firm Gibson Dunn—including famed First Amendment attorney Ted Boutrous, Jr.—were en led to collect on 363.1 hours of work totaling $247,667.50, plus an additional $10,724 for hours billed by paralegals.
In a statement to Law&Crime, Herring Networks President Charles Herring said he and his legal team plan to continue pursuing an appeal to the ruling. “We’re pleased that the fees were reduced by nearly a third by the court,” he wrote in an email. “The case is currently under appeal and we’re highly confident that we’ll receive a favorable and just ruling in the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.”
As previously reported by Law&Crime, OAN came under fire on Friday when the network aired MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s do entary-style disinformation program which alleged massive electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election. The broadcast — some 12 hours total — ran as a paid advertisement.
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https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendm...ation-lawsuit/
This matters.
https://anti-slapp.org/what-is-a-slapp
Not like you care, but SLAPP suits are what conservatives use to shut any kind of criticism, no matter how valid.
Why do conservatives hate the truth?
The core of modern conservatism is dishonesty. and violence.
Last edited by RandomGuy; 02-08-2021 at 07:21 AM.
"The core of modern conservatism is dishonesty. and violence."
that's way TOO generous
dishonesty
political violence, law enforcement violence, including death penalty
Euro-White Male Supremacy = misogyny, racism, chauvinism/nationalism/imperialism, neo-Nazi "blood and soil" nativism/xenophobia,
anti-democratic, authoritarianism, fascism
"small govt" is actually anti-govt, aka Bannon's "destruction of the administrative state" aka anarchy in the service of Capitalist oligarchy.
civil rights violating
so-called God-fearing, Christ-loving Christians who actually LOVE TO HATE based on their self-serving, paranoiac "persecution".
All financed by the predatory, destructive, anti-democratic Capitalist oligarchy and its strategy towards a one-party authoritarianism.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 02-08-2021 at 08:07 AM.
Trumpism in a nuts , tbh.
Trumpism is exactly decades-old Republicanism. Trump, for now, gone, but Repuglicanism will continue to degrade America towards Capitalistic fascism
Boots and Boots Jr link spamming full force.
Still, having to pay to Rachel Maddow has to sting. Rachel Maddow
You say that as an insult, but Boots has been harping on the same message consistently for years.
And he was right.
That's gotta sting for you.
Don't bore DMC with trivial cable news minutia.
https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=270496
https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=270059
https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=276702
(can't... resist...) minutiaE
Look at all the people talking about the thread subject... Oh wait.. nm
Chirpblubber^
Cry more.
Rachel Maddow again beats OAN's libel suit -- and
pro-Trump outlet ordered to pay $250K in legal fees
https://www.rawstory.com/rachel-maddow-oan-2654696011
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