Second Circuit shreds Nunes defamation claims against CNN
Source: Courthouse News Service
Second Circuit shreds Nunes defamation claims against CNN
It’s only the latest blow to the former California congressman’s defamation suit saga, a decision that holds to the pro-press laws of his home state.
EMILEE LARKIN / April 14, 2022
MANHATTAN (CN) — Devin Nunes hit a dead end Thursday in his defamation suit against CNN.
Back when he was a Republican congressman representing a rural swathe of central California, Nunes sued CNN for nearly half a million dollars in 2019, saying the network sought to harm his reputation when it ran a story quoting indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas that implicated Nunes in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to look in Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election.
Nunes originally brought the suit in Virginia, hoping to reap the benefits of the state’s weak anti-SLAPP laws, short for strategic lawsuit against public participation, but CNN had it moved to New York when a judge found the case had nothing to do with Virginia.
A federal judge in New York dismissed his claims last February, finding he failed to plead that he suffered special damages. The judge leaned on California law, which set a high threshold for press defamation suits. To be eligible for damages, Nunes would have needed to demand that CNN retract or correct its report within 20 days, which he did not do.
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