Supreme Court lets lawsuit by climate scientist continue against "conservative" outlets

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-lets-lawsuit-by-climate-scientist-continue-against-conservative-outlets/2019/11/25/710ce7a6-0f94-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html

A climate scientist may pursue his defamation lawsuit against a conservative magazine and a libertarian Washington think tank after the Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene at this stage of the litigation.

National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute had asked the court to review a decision by local District of Columbia courts that said the lawsuit by Pennsylvania State University professor Michael Mann could continue.

The court turned down the request without comment, but Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented, saying the case “presents questions that go to the very heart of the guarantee of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hospitalized over the weekend for chills and a fever, was back at work Monday as the court prepared for the holidays by dispatching with several closely watched cases:

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. in other words, it's just not ripe for SCOTUS yet