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New York State Supreme Court rules against the New York Times’s request to dismiss a defamation lawsuit that was filed by Project Veritas
wordpress ^ | April 5, 2021 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 04/05/2021 4:08:25 PM PDT by grundle

New York State Supreme Court rules against the New York Times’s request to dismiss a defamation lawsuit that was filed by Project Veritas

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

April 5, 2021

Project Veritas published this video about voter fraud in Minneapolis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWK56l2VaLY

Afterward, the New York Times published a news article, which refers to the video as “deceptive.”

You can read the New York Times article at this link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201001023902/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/politics/project-veritas-ilhan-omar.html

Project Veritas then sued the New York Time for defamation.

The New York Times tried to get the lawsuit dismissed by claiming that the writer was expressing his opinion, and that it was not a statement of fact.

However, The New York State Supreme Court ruled that because the New York Times accusation of deception was in a news article, and not an opinion column, the lawsuit can proceed.

Now, in order to defend itself, the New York Times must prove that the video is deceptive.

You can read the court’s ruling at this link:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20518694-order_denying_motion_to_dismiss

And here’s an article about the court’s ruling:

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/22/project-veritas-wins-early-round-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-new-york-times/

I’m no legal expert. But I am curious to see what the New York Times will do in order to prove that the video is deceptive.



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1 posted on 04/05/2021 4:08:25 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
Ouch. Now it would be a good precedent to make news people liable for false opinions offered as news articles. It would shut down almost all the MSM. Couching opinions and propaganda as "news" has been their main weapon.


2 posted on 04/05/2021 4:15:27 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

The “Supreme Court” in New York is the trial court, equivalent e.g. to the California Superior Court. New York’s real “supreme court” in the sense we ordinarily mean that is the Court of Appeals.


3 posted on 04/05/2021 5:42:45 PM PDT by kimballdog
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To: kimballdog

I can tell you exactly what the New York Times will do to dispose of its claim that the video is deceptive.

Settle.


4 posted on 04/05/2021 6:42:33 PM PDT by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: kimballdog

Why am I not surprised that NY names their courts wrong?


5 posted on 04/05/2021 10:25:56 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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