Posted on 09/28/2022 10:00:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A federal judge this week allowed a Venezuelan businessman’s defamation lawsuit to continue against Fox News and host Lou Dobbs over statements accusing the man of helping rig the 2020 presidential election.
Majed Khalil filed the suit last year, alleging statements made on Dobbs’s Twitter account and by Sidney Powell on Dobbs’s show defamed Khalil by accusing him of executing an “electoral 9/11” and helping change ballot counts in voting machines.
Dobbs, the Fox Corporation and Fox News moved to dismiss the case in January, arguing the statements were protected under the First Amendment and were not said with actual malice, the standard of proof required for defamation against a public figure.
U.S. District Court Judge Louis Lee Stanton denied the motion on Monday, saying Khalil is not a public figure and that his complaint showed enough evidence of false and defamatory statements to move forward to discovery in the case.
“Defendants repeatedly maintained their claims about Khalil long after Powell’s election fraud theories were challenged,” Stanton wrote in the ruling.
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...Venezuelan businessman... Majed Khalil...
"Venezuela Man"? That name sounds exactly the same as "Minnesota Man".
Muslims are the parasites infecting the world at large.
Young whippersnapper.
Apparently Judge Stanton will be 95 years old on 1 October 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L._Stanton
Discovery should be interesting...
"Majed Khalil"
You don't say?
Reagan appointed Judge.
Reagan appointed Judge.
This is the real reason Fox fired Lou Dobbs.
These kinds of lawsuits, that we are seeing recently, will put a damper on free speech.
Federal judges, as a species, have the same credibility as the FBI and DoJ. Putrid.
Waiting for CNN to get sued for fake news.
There are a lot of middle easterners and Iranians in central and with America as well as the Caribbean.
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