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Offline PeteS in CA

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Judge denies motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit over HuffPost story involving Brett Kavanaugh
« on: September 28, 2020, 07:00:51 pm »
Judge denies motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit over HuffPost story involving Brett Kavanaugh

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/24/lawsuit-over-brett-kavanugh-story-huffpost-no-dismissal/3502480001/

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A federal judge has refused to dismiss a Mississippi man's defamation lawsuit against the news website HuffPost over a 2018 story on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's days at Georgetown Prep school.

Gulfport professor and advocate Derrick Evans’ lawsuit was filed in August 2019 in U.S. District Court in Gulfport against HuffPost.com and its former journalist, Ashley Feinberg.

The lawsuit said HuffPost and Feinberg repeatedly defamed Evans and friend Douglas Kennedy to a nationwide audience in September 2018 by falsely asserting they helped arrange the purchase and delivery of cocaine at Georgetown Prep that resulted in the April 1984 death of David Kennedy, Douglas’ brother and the son of the late U.S. attorney general and senator, Robert F. Kennedy.
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Evans' lawsuit said the article statements "were not only false and defamatory, but outrageously so, and were published by defendants with knowledge of their actual falsity or in reckless disregard of the truth for the apparent purpose of creating a salacious story designed to drive internet traffic to HuffPost’s website.”

This defamation was part of the national Dem-MSM campaign to slander Kavanaugh and his high school classmates as sex-and-drug-crazed hoodlums. It's pathetic that the MSM have to be taught by lawsuits like this or Palin's against the NYT or Sandmann's against multiple media outlets not to slander and defame people for some political cause. But if that's what it takes it's a lesson that needs to be taught.
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Re: Judge denies motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit over HuffPost story involving Brett Kavanaugh
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2020, 07:04:50 pm »
Woot!  Hope this grows legs.
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