News organizations, journalists ask court to review decision on Nunes lawsuit

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

A group of leading news organizations are throwing their support behind a legal effort to challenge a judge's ruling in favor of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calf.), who is suing reporter Ryan Lizza over a 2018 story in Esquire about Nunes' family farm.

A defamation suit Nunes brought against Lizza was initially tossed out by a judge in August of 2020. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in September that because Lizza had tweeted out a link to the story in question after the congressman had filed his initial defamation suit, he had essentially "republished" it - reviving the lawmaker's libel claim.

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In the brief filed this week, more than two dozen news organizations including Fox News, the New York Times and Vox Media argued the judge's September ruling sets a precedent that "could create havoc for not just news publishers, but all distributors of content."

"The panel's holding that Nunes could state a claim for defamation based on a tweet that hyperlinked to-but did not repeat the substance of-an allegedly defamatory article threatens to upend long-standing legal principles governing the dissemination of news and information in the Internet age," the news organizations wrote in the brief.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/news-organizations-journalists-ask-court-to-review-decision-on-nunes-lawsuit/ar-AAPN7bP

[Ford_Prefect]

1. The judge who found for Nunes was stretching a point beyond reason

If such were the case then anyone at all who spoke of the document and where it could be found would be equally culpable.

This is not the same as repeating the contents or the assertions made in the document in a public venue.

The Judge used a technicality of terms to establish a false condition which does not actually apply in the real world.

[LiberalFighter]

2. The judge needs to be forced into complete retirement.

No seniority status.