Today, Fusion GPS is the target ...
From the "ACCOUNTABILITY", FILES: Devin Nunes Files Racketeering Lawsuit Against Fusion GPS
Six months ago Nunes launched his mammmoth $250 million lawsuit against Twitter ...
Republican Devin Nunes sues Twitter, users over attacks
Yet, despite CNN's claims of that lawsuit going nowhere, it seems that NBC this week now says that the Nunes Twitter lawsuit has merit.
What GOP Rep. Devin Nunes' Twitter defamation lawsuit says about the future of defamation law: The congressman’s suit is clearly petty. But it does ask the legal system to answer questions it will eventually need to tackle.
... and then there's this, which gets to the very heart of holding news promoters accountable for libel.
Devin Nunes serves McClatchy with lawsuit four months after announcing complaint
One can't help but wonder what tomorrow will bring. One might think that all those proclaiming damage done by anonymous Russian trolls would get on board with more accountability.
From the "ACCOUNTABILITY", FILES: Devin Nunes Files Racketeering Lawsuit Against Fusion GPS
Rep. Devin Nunes filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against opposition research firm Fusion GPS and the Campaign for Accountability, accusing the two of smearing him over his investigation into Fusion GPS’s and the Steele dossier.
The complaint, which the California Republican filed in federal court in Virginia, alleges that Fusion GPS and Campaign for Accountability (CfA) worked on a “joint and systematic effort to intimidate, harass, threaten, influence, interfere with, impede, and ultimately to derail” Nunes’ investigation of the dossier, which he directed as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
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But Nunes, who is seeking $9.9 million in damages, dismisses Stevens’ denial, saying in the lawsuit that the ethics complaints were “fraudulent and retaliatory,” and intended to protect Fusion GPS and its co-founder, Glenn Simpson.
He alleges that Fusion GPS and Simpson “harbored spite and ill-will” towards him for exposing details of Fusion’s dossier-related work.
In October 2017, HPSCI subpoenaed Fusion GPS’s bank records, leading to the revelation that the law firm for the Clinton campaign and DNC-funded the Steele dossier. The firm, Perkins Coie, paid Fusion GPS more than $1 million in 2016. Fusion paid Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, nearly $170,000 to work on what would become known as the dossier.
The complaint, which the California Republican filed in federal court in Virginia, alleges that Fusion GPS and Campaign for Accountability (CfA) worked on a “joint and systematic effort to intimidate, harass, threaten, influence, interfere with, impede, and ultimately to derail” Nunes’ investigation of the dossier, which he directed as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
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But Nunes, who is seeking $9.9 million in damages, dismisses Stevens’ denial, saying in the lawsuit that the ethics complaints were “fraudulent and retaliatory,” and intended to protect Fusion GPS and its co-founder, Glenn Simpson.
He alleges that Fusion GPS and Simpson “harbored spite and ill-will” towards him for exposing details of Fusion’s dossier-related work.
In October 2017, HPSCI subpoenaed Fusion GPS’s bank records, leading to the revelation that the law firm for the Clinton campaign and DNC-funded the Steele dossier. The firm, Perkins Coie, paid Fusion GPS more than $1 million in 2016. Fusion paid Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, nearly $170,000 to work on what would become known as the dossier.
Six months ago Nunes launched his mammmoth $250 million lawsuit against Twitter ...
Republican Devin Nunes sues Twitter, users over attacks
(CNN) California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes is suing Twitter and three individual Twitter users, accusing them of defaming him in order to derail his re-election campaign and deter him from the Russia investigation.
Nunes, an ally of President Donald Trump and former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, filed the complaint Tuesday in Virginia state court, seeking $250 million in damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.
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Nunes told Fox News on Monday that the lawsuit will be "the first of many."
"We're actually going after Twitter first because they are the main proliferator and they spread this fake news and this slanderous news," Nunes told Fox News.
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CNN legal analyst Laura Coates said Tuesday the lawsuit is unlikely to go far.
Nunes, an ally of President Donald Trump and former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, filed the complaint Tuesday in Virginia state court, seeking $250 million in damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.
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Nunes told Fox News on Monday that the lawsuit will be "the first of many."
"We're actually going after Twitter first because they are the main proliferator and they spread this fake news and this slanderous news," Nunes told Fox News.
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CNN legal analyst Laura Coates said Tuesday the lawsuit is unlikely to go far.
Yet, despite CNN's claims of that lawsuit going nowhere, it seems that NBC this week now says that the Nunes Twitter lawsuit has merit.
What GOP Rep. Devin Nunes' Twitter defamation lawsuit says about the future of defamation law: The congressman’s suit is clearly petty. But it does ask the legal system to answer questions it will eventually need to tackle.
Protections against defamation long pre-date the founding of our country and have their origins in English common law. When laws guarding against defamation were developed, no judge, attorney or scholar could have predicted the creation of the internet, let alone social media. Now the law must evolve. And Nunes and his thin skin may just help define if, how and when social media corporations like Twitter could have to pay.
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Defamation cases are hard to win, for good reason. When one person wins a defamation suit, it means another person is punished for something they said. Ring, ring, it’s the First Amendment calling. The First Amendment guards against the government limiting speech. When a judge and/or a jury fines someone for what they say, that is the government burdening speech.
But Nunes’ suit brings up questions the law has yet to tackle. We don’t know exactly what to do when someone, particularly an anonymous someone, types false statements about you that harm your reputation in that town square called Twitter.
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Defamation cases are hard to win, for good reason. When one person wins a defamation suit, it means another person is punished for something they said. Ring, ring, it’s the First Amendment calling. The First Amendment guards against the government limiting speech. When a judge and/or a jury fines someone for what they say, that is the government burdening speech.
But Nunes’ suit brings up questions the law has yet to tackle. We don’t know exactly what to do when someone, particularly an anonymous someone, types false statements about you that harm your reputation in that town square called Twitter.
... and then there's this, which gets to the very heart of holding news promoters accountable for libel.
Devin Nunes serves McClatchy with lawsuit four months after announcing complaint
The lawsuit alleges that McClatchy and The Fresno Bee engaged in a “scheme to defame plaintiff and destroy his reputation.”
It asks McClatchy to scrub certain articles about him from the internet ...
One can't help but wonder what tomorrow will bring. One might think that all those proclaiming damage done by anonymous Russian trolls would get on board with more accountability.
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He didn't even bother to get the users behind the silly names - he is actually suing Devin Nunes' Cow and Devin Nunes' Mom by those names. Liz Mair is an actual person.
