Federal judge denies Bill O'Reilly's move to seal harassment settlements

[fleur-de-lisa]

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A federal judge has reportedly blocked former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s motion to seal his past harassment settlements in a defamation case against him.

Judge Deborah Batts of New York ruled on Tuesday that O’Reilly “failed to present compelling countervailing factors” that would overrule public access to the documents, CNN reported Wednesday.

O’Reilly “has not even come close to rebutting this First Amendment presumption” that favors releasing the documents, Batts said.

Andrea Mackris, Rebecca Gomez Diamond and Rachel Witlieb Bernstein say in their lawsuit that O’Reiley, Fox News and 21st Century Fox smeared them by calling them liars and extortionists regarding their claims of sexual misconduct against the former host. The ruling will bring to light the settlement agreements the women made with O’Reilly to keep their allegations quiet.

[SunSeeker]

1. Good. nt

[packman]

2. Indeed good - expose that slime to some light

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. The agreement with Andrea Mackris had confidentiality provisions so freaky as to include this:

Retweeted by SubjectHatNotTargetHat: https://twitter.com/Popehat

One of the agreements was with Andrea Mackris. Its confidentiality provisions are so freaky as to include this:

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

4. This will be fun to watch

[The Mouth]

5. Nothing should ever be sealed

unless it involve a minor.

outlaw all NDAs and anything resembling them.

[Nitram]

6. O'Lielly doesn't know when to quit. They're going to take him down. Big time.

[BobTheSubgenius]

7. What a coincidence!

Or maybe not. Maybe it's to be expected, given that he "has not even come close" to being a decent human being. We just expect too much from some...I'll say "people."