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Judge denies LePage motion to dismiss lawsuit by women blocked from his Facebook page
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/08/29/judge-denies-lepage-motion-to-dismiss-suit-by-women-blocked-from-his-facebook-page/A federal judge has denied a motion by Gov. Paul LePage to dismiss a suit filed by two Maine women who were blocked from the Republican governor’s Facebook page after they made comments critical of him.
Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. denied LePage’s motion to have the suit dismissed in a ruling issued in U.S. District Court on Wednesday.
Woodcock found merit in the plaintiff’s allegations that the governor’s censorship of their comments on his Facebook page violated their First Amendment right to free speech.
His ruling also means that their lawsuit will be allowed to proceed through the courts, regardless of the fact that LePage’s second term is coming to an end in January.
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