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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Sanguine on February 27, 2019, 07:53:50 pm

Title: US Appeals Court Rules for Actor James Woods in Twitter Case
Post by: Sanguine on February 27, 2019, 07:53:50 pm
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A federal appeals court has rejected an Ohio woman's defamation lawsuit against actor James Woods over Twitter posts during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Feb. 27, 2019, at 1:49 p.m.

U.S. News & World Report

CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected an Ohio woman's defamation lawsuit against actor James Woods over Twitter posts during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Wednesday a lower court ruling dismissing the lawsuit by Portia Boulger of Chillicothe (chihl-ih-KAHTH'-ee), an activist for Democrat Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.

In March 2016, a Twitter account mistakenly identified Boulger as a woman who appeared to give a Nazi salute at a rally for then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Woods' account retweeted the photos, asking: "So-called #Trump 'Nazi' is a #BernieSanders agitator/operative?"

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https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2019-02-27/us-appeals-court-rules-for-actor-james-woods-in-twitter-case (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2019-02-27/us-appeals-court-rules-for-actor-james-woods-in-twitter-case)
Title: Re: US Appeals Court Rules for Actor James Woods in Twitter Case
Post by: truth_seeker on February 27, 2019, 08:26:45 pm

Good for Woods, and for the court.
Title: Re: US Appeals Court Rules for Actor James Woods in Twitter Case
Post by: verga on February 27, 2019, 10:23:41 pm
Good, thank God it wasn't the ninth.
Title: Re: US Appeals Court Rules for Actor James Woods in Twitter Case
Post by: austingirl on February 28, 2019, 03:19:29 pm
Good.
Title: Re: US Appeals Court Rules for Actor James Woods in Twitter Case
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on March 03, 2019, 01:19:00 pm
Doesn't sound to me like Woody intentionally singled her out and wrongly went after her.