Posted on 03/10/2015 7:40:56 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Heavy hitters in U.S. media joined prominent First Amendment scholars to file two amicus briefs challenging last summer’s jury verdict that favored former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in his defamation trial in St. Paul.
The friend-of-the-court media brief, filed with the 8th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals, characterizes the $1.3 million jury award to Ventura as unprecedented, with no basis in common law.
The scholars’ filing faults U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle’s instructions to the jury.
The briefs support Taya Kyle, widow of Chris Kyle, author of the best-selling memoir “American Sniper.”
Ventura’s lawyers convinced the jury in a 10-2 decision that he had been defamed by Chris Kyle, who wrote in the book that he punched Ventura and knocked him down in a California bar after Ventura made disparaging remarks about Navy SEALs and the U.S. government.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
What makes you think it was an injustice?
What makes you think it wasnt
There was a fair civil trial and the jury decided for Ventura.
They were wrong
How do you know it was fair?
It sounds like the judge may have been unfair.
Good for the Kyle family. Hope they do overturn it.
Read the article. The argument is about the award for enrichment and whether the threshold for defamation was met. No one is contesting the jury’s finding that Kyle made the incident up out of whole cloth.
The heavy hitters listed in the article
New York Times
Washington Post
American Society of News Editors
National Public Radio
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Minnesota Newspaper Association
Would you consider them the "heavy hitters" of the US news media?
Ventura is as vile, cowardly and twisted as anyone I’ve ever come across. His conspiracy theories demonstrate his lack of proportion, logic and any real intelligence. He is shrewd and manipulative. Other than that I’m sure he is a great guy.
If the trial had been somewhere other tham Minnesota, Ventura would have been laughed out of the court. As it is, he is being laughed out of the U.S., and rightfully so.
I did read the entire article.
Including the last sentence of part two? The jury found the Kyle fabricated the incident. No one is contesting that finding.
Ventura should rot,
It is couched in legal phasing but yes they are contesting that finding. They are saying the judges instructions and answers to questions caused them to make the wrong decision.
Jesse Ventura said in did not occur and is was libeled by Chris Kyle saying it happen....
So do you contend me saying I hit you is libeling you to the tune of millions dollars?... i can see maybe if falsely accuse YOU of a crime....
But in this case Kyle is accusing himself of assault on Ventura... and Ventura is saying it libel to he was assaulted by Kyle??...
First time I've heard that a false confession of a crime was libel of the supposed victim to the tune of millions..
Let alone the fact witnesses testified it did in fact happen
Add in the fact we are talking about two guys bar fight trash talk rising to the level of million dollars libel case against a dead man's widow and kids.....
I think the lawsuit was crap. But Kyle told some sea stories. About killing two carjackers on highway 67 in Texas, and all he had to do was give the cops a magic number to call. And the voice at the pentagon says he was a hero, and they have to release him. That’s just silly.
And Lone Survivor Lutrell mentioned Kyle’s Superdome sniper in Katrina fantasy.
Hell, I like him more for shining on the yokels with a few sea stories. And it was uncool of Ventura to sue. But we shouldn’t be ignorant and act like Kyle’s story was a hard cold fact.
Like Pappy Boyington said, “show me a hero, and ill prove he’s a bum”. Id rather enjoy Kyle as a real dude and not some sort of tin plated ersatz angel. Real is good.
Your Hate Boner is showing.
[But Kyle told some sea stories.]
Maybe he did, but he is no longer with us. That’s when this should have all been thrown out. It wasn’t his wife’s words that were on trial so once Chris Kyle was gone so should have been this lawsuit. I also agree with you, he did come across as the real deal, warts and all.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384176/justice-jesse-ventura-was-right-his-lawsuit-j-delgado
Details Chris Kyle’s “sea story”
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