Posted on 01/03/2007 11:32:42 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Court Allows Suit Against Air America Tuesday January 2, 5:24 pm ET Bankruptcy Court Allows Lawsuit Against Air America to Proceed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government contractor CACI International Inc. has won bankruptcy court approval to proceed with its defamation lawsuit against liberal talk radio network Air America and one of its hosts, Randi Rhodes.
A federal bankruptcy court in New York ruled Thursday that the case could proceed despite the fact that Air America has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Under federal law, legal proceedings against a company are frozen when the company declares bankruptcy.
CACI International asked the bankruptcy court in November to allow its case to go forward, arguing that its claims against Air America are covered by an insurance policy and any damages would be paid out of that policy and not from the company's assets.
The company sued Air America and its parent company, Piquant LLC, as well as Rhodes in the fall of 2005 for defamation. The suit stemmed from comments Rhodes made Aug. 25-26, 2005 on her radio show. According to CACI's complaint, she accused CACI employees of raping and murdering Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib prison, claims that CACI said were "false and defamatory."
CACI is seeking $1 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages. An Air America spokeswoman declined to comment on the lawsuit.
A U.S. District Court dismissed the case, but CACI appealed that ruling. The bankruptcy court's decision allows the appeal to proceed.
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I bet he scares small children. Hell, I'm pusing 40 and he creeeps me out.
Gepetto?
-MoDo-
um,., yes, I believe we are. :-(
Right. The English can't believe that we use Randy as a nickname. On the other hand, I knew an Englishwoman named Cherry.
Yuck! That's what they call "a face made for radio".
"HOWEVER I bet the insurance company settles and the radio personality has difficulty obtaining insurance after this."
She can always become a well paid ivy league professor.
Shouldn't the Secret Service be investigating Randi Rhodes for her many threats against the life of the President?
Dirty Dusty Rhodes is Deeply Saddened with his progeny.
At least they're not as big as Bareback Obama's.
She threatened the president?
Looks more like Chia Petto.
Cut the hair and remove the makeup and that's a MAN BABY!
LOL!
Her looks are not her problem; her mouth is. Rather I should say her heart. She's as filled with venom as anyone I've heard on radio or TV.
I was thinking of him also! Men can get away with that. She is real bad. She has to keep that hair long. That is also bad because she is an older women and her hair should be short. MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Actually when I was a small child growing up on an Iowa farm, that was out hired man's last name.
They're coming after the children....
The same should apply for their idiotic members of Congress.
I'm a big Hewitt fan; he has the best content on radio and allows both sides to present their case. Of course, the liberals never can get through the cross examination. They are not truthful people.
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