A Kansas man is suing Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., over social media posts that falsely identified him as an undocumented immigrant and one of the shooters in the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade that turned deadly last month. The lawsuit, filed by attorneys for Denton Loudermill Jr. in federal court in Kansas City, Kan.,… Continue reading Tim Burchett faces defamation suit over Chiefs parade shooter post
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Judge Dismisses Trump’s Defamation Countersuit Against E. Jean Carroll
A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation countersuit against the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found guilty of sexually abusing and defaming by a jury in May. In his ruling on Monday, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York shot down Trump’s claim that Carroll defamed him when she… Continue reading Judge Dismisses Trump’s Defamation Countersuit Against E. Jean Carroll
Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in… Continue reading Trump’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over ‘the Big Lie’ dismissed in Florida