Judge Dismisses Michael Mann’s Lawsuit Against National Review

[PeteS in CA]

Judge Dismisses Michael Mann’s Lawsuit Against National Review

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2021/03/19/judge-dismissed-michael-manns-lawsuit-national-review/

It took nearly a decade but Michael Mann’s lawsuit against National Review has finally been dismissed.

More than eight years ago, Mann launched the suit against NR, writing privately that he saw it as an opportunity to “ruin” this “filthy organization.”

The lawsuit stemmed from a blog post on The Corner by Mark Steyn back in 2012 criticizing Mann’s work. The climate scientist threatened a lawsuit unless NR removed the offending post and apologized, which it refused to do. Mann then sued NR, Steyn, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (Steyn quoted a CEI article in his post).

NR, et al, need to counter-attack for Mann's frivolous lawsuit.

[Cyber Liberty]

FTA:

More than eight years ago, Mann launched the suit against NR, writing privately that he saw it as an opportunity to “ruin” this “filthy organization.”

NR did a bang-up job of doing that to themselves with the unhinged hatred of Donald Trump.

[BassWrangler]

I'm so happy that Steyn was finally victorious. Can't wait to read his article on this.

EDIT: Suit still stands against Steyn. The reason it was dismissed against NR is that they argued "from the beginning that the post is not defamatory but is protected opinion, and that, besides, there’s no way NR could have had malice when the post wasn’t reviewed ahead of time and was posted by a nonemployee. The court today accepted the latter argument, meaning the suit still stands against Steyn and CEI."

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/national-review-prevails-against-michael-mann/