TagsTagsThings aren't going very well for Andrew Breitbart in the defamation lawsuit filed against him by former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, and now Breitbart and his lawyers have been scolded by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon (a George W. Bush appointee): Federal Judge: Blogger Likely 'Overreaching' With Anti-SLAPP Motion. In ...
Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Defamation, Lawsuit, Editing, Dishonesty, Right Wing Journalism
TPM has details on the lawsuit filed against Andrew Breitbart by Shirley Sherrod. Three defendants are named: Breitbart, Breitbart.tv head Larry O'Connor and a "John Doe," who allegedly edited the original video of Sherrod's speech, and "whose identity has been concealed by the other Defendants," according to the complaint. The complaint ...
Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, NAACP, Fraud, Lawsuit, Defamation
In July of last year, Shirley Sherrod said she was going to sue Andrew Breitbart over the deceptively edited video that falsely portrayed her as a "racist," and yesterday at CPAC she made good on that vow. Andrew Breitbart, the owner of several conservative Web sites, was served at the ...
Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, NAACP, Fraud, Lawsuit, Defamation
Last year Pamela Geller injected herself into the case of Rifqa Bary, a teenage runaway and Christian convert who claimed her Muslim parents were planning to kill her. (The Florida Department of Law Enforcement subsequently investigated these claims and found “no evidence whatsoever of alleged abuse or threats of death ...
Pamela Geller, Shrieking Harpy, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Defamation, Lawsuit, Rifqa Bary
Climate change denier Tim Blair is suing a fellow Australian blogger for accusing him of using a sock puppet account: Tim Blair Vs Crikey : Stupid Blog War Now Wasting NSW Supreme Court’s Time. Rumor has it that Tim also plans to sue the Arctic ice cap for damaging his reputation ...
Tim Blair, Australia, Idiocy, Climate Change Denial, Lawsuit, Sock Puppet
Looks like Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS for breach of contract is now an ex-lawsuit: NY Top Court Rejects Dan Rather Appeal in CBS Case. NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State’s highest court on Tuesday declined to hear former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather’s appeal of a decision ...
The Washington Post has an open letter from Sarah Palin’s attorney (PDF), threatening to sue Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore and several media sources: To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Lawsuit, Blogosphere, Free Speech, Libel
The ridiculous, frivolous lawsuit against Caterpillar, Inc., by the parents of ISM terror-supporter Rachel Corrie has been dismissed (PDF file) by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Hat tip: watson.)
As we noted in March, Islamist front group the Council on American-Islamic Relations has withdrawn their lawsuit against Anti-CAIR, after Anti-CAIR’s lawyers filed a request for discovery that would have forced CAIR to reveal things they obviously didn’t want to reveal. Daniel Pipes has more details on the suit and ...
CAIR, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Propaganda, Lawsuit, Anti-CAIR, Whitehead
Radical Islamic front group CAIR’s harassment lawsuit against former Rep. Cass Ballenger has been dismissed. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of an American Muslim civil rights group’s defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Rep. Cass Ballenger, who linked the group to terrorists ...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has dropped their libel suit against Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR: CAIR Settles A Libel Suit Against Critic. No one will say much, under the terms of the settlement, but it looks like CAIR decided to bail out when it appeared the judge might force them ...
CAIR, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Propaganda, Lawsuit, Anti-CAIR, Whitehead