Posted on 05/06/2021 2:45:09 PM PDT by Coronal
A federal judge in Maryland this week followed through on a previous warning to sanction a lawyer best known for representing Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in a series of failed defamation lawsuits against media companies, saying the lawyer’s latest case against CNN was “frivolous” in nature.
U.S. District Judge Richard Bennet, an appointee of George W. Bush, ruled that attorney Steve Biss had “unreasonably and vexatiously” attempted to continue litigating a lawsuit against the news network after the case had already been dismissed with prejudice for failing to state a claim in March. Despite that ruling, Biss filed an amended complaint that the court went on to describe as “nothing more than a repetition of the original complaint with no new material factual allegations.”
The original complaint — filed on behalf of Nunes’s senior aide Derek Harvey against CNN, former Rudy Giuliani business associate Lev Parnas, and Parnas’s attorney Joseph Bondy — stemmed from a November 2020 CNN report that said Parnas was prepared to provide Congress with testimony in connection with Donald Trump’s first impeachment proceeding. CNN reported that Parnas would testify, in effect, that Nunes met with former Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin “to discuss digging up dirt of Joe Biden.”
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We’ve seen dozens of frivolous cases files over the past few years against Trump. But no consequences followed.
Won’t click through to the full article because of the cookies but it seems the case is not directly involved with Nunes; rather, the attorney was suing on behalf of an aide to Nunes. But you get more clicks, of course, if you drag in a familiar name hated by the TDS crowd.
Appeal.
Apparently it isn’t defamation if the target is a Republican and the originator is a member of the media.
NOW you're cooking with gas! :)
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