Posted on 01/23/2019 9:58:02 AM PST by Based Newsman
Attorney Robert Barnes on Fox and Friends this morning.
"We’re Giving Major Media, Celebrities 48 Hours to Apologize to Covington Kids or Face Lawsuit"
BARNES: Because these are all private citizens and many of them minors and kids the law is that saying anything about them is libel. And you don’t have a defense of actual malice all you have to prove is negligence. So a lot of these journalists who have been saying false statements about these kids, false statements about the kids at the Lincoln Memorial, false statements about various photographs that are related to the school, slurring and libeling the entire school and all the alumnae of the school and all you have to prove is that they were negligent in doing so. At this standpoint at this point in time it is clear that anyone who continues to libel about these kids has done so illegally and can be sued for it.
FOX and Friends: Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to help the families?
BARNES: Well the nature of libel lawsuits is that they generally are very hard to bring. They cost between a quarter of a million and a million dollars to bring. That’s how much powerful people will use for their legal fees to defend such suits. So I wanted to equalize the playing field. These are people who couldn’t afford to bring this claim on their own behalf. That’s why I offered my services for free because somebody needed to stop this from occurring to other kids across the country… Everybody is now
FOX and Friends: I understand you want to give 48 hours notice. That’s your plan.
BARNES: Everybody is now on 48 hours notice. So by Friday everybody needs to retract and correct any false statements they have issued about these kids. That means any major member of the media. That means any celebrity. That means anybody with a substantial social media platform. If you have said anything false about these kids. They are willing to to offer you a 48 hour time period, a period of grace, consistent with their Christian faith, for you to through confessions get redemption to retract and apologize. If you do not in the next week you may be a defendant in a lawsuit.
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47 hours & 59 minutes too long
Sue away.
GOOD!!
I hope the sue the ever loving cr@p outta all and every media outlet that libeled that kid!!!!!
Well here is one on the left who has reacted:
Tom T. @VRWCTexan
https://twitter.com/VRWCTexan/status/1088125731551539202
Rep. Ilhan Omar deletes her libelous tweet attacking Covington students
Rep. Ilhan Omar deletes tweet attacking Covington students, after backlash
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-ilhan-omar-faces-backlash-for-new-attacks-on-covington-students
Richard Jewell Part Deux...............
I hope the lawyer is demanding a detailed, point-by-point apology and retraction to be run several times over several days.
They will go silent on this subject and move on to the next situation to fake and inflame.
It's all about 'getting' TRUMP and anything decent.
Same here - his going on TV gives me pause. I hope he really is focused on prosecution and not on becoming a ‘celebrity lawyer.’
Hopefully https://www.thomasmore.org can come to their aid.
Liz Warren still has her slander tweet up.
“may be liable”?
That is not a threat. That is also not a promise.
Who stated this? A Bush family member?
Good. If I were rich, I would fund the lawsuit all the way to the Supremes.
Sue them. Make all the haters poor so they have to live on EBT cards.
This is the civil case. This should not influence the criminal felony case that they should bring.
Class action lawsuit. Compel Twitter, Facebook, YouTube run analytics and identify every person who has condemned these boys without looking at the facts. Suspend their accounts and have them added to the lawsuit.
That will make it really interesting.
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