Nunes Sues Again

[DaisyDay]

This time Devin is suing over an Esquire article detailing how his much-touted dairy farm is actually in Iowa (Steve King's district) and has been for more than a decade even though most puff pieces mention his deep California farm roots (he does, however, own shares in a Napa Valley winery). Apparently this besmirching is worth $75,000,000.

There’s nothing particularly strange about a congressman’s family moving. But what is strange is that the family has apparently tried to conceal the move from the public—for more than a decade. As far as I could tell, until late August, neither Nunes nor the local California press that covers him had ever publicly mentioned that his family dairy is no longer in Tulare.

The reporter, Ryan Lizza, seems to mainly have transgressed by detailing how dependent Iowa's dairy farmers (and agriculture in general in this country) are on undocumented labor and the irony of their support for Donald and King. The article is sympathetic to their plight, both the farmers' and the laborers', but there is deep concern that any publicity could bring ICE down upon the town with disastrous consequences for all.

Devin's response is Trumpian in its personal attacks on the reporter. From the FresnoBee

The complaint does not contest any facts in Lizza’s story, and it is not clear what act Nunes considers to be unlawful.

The complaint accuses Lizza and Hearst of acting as part of a conspiracy to defame Nunes, a charge he has leveled in all four of his previous lawsuits filed this year. It bases that on the spread of the story among journalists in social media.

Nunes in the complaint says Lizza’s story harmed his reputation, another frequent charge in his lawsuits. Nunes refers to the story throughout the complaint as a “hit piece.”

In this case, Plaintiff seeks money damages for the insult, pain, embarrassment, humiliation, mental suffering, anguish, and injury to his good name and professional reputation in Iowa and elsewhere, caused by the Defendants’ defamation. The Defendants published click-bait, sensationalist, egregious misstatements simply to sell magazines and, in Lizza’s case, to distract readers from his negative image and history as a sexual predator and to improve his standing. The Defendants’ had an axe to grind against Plaintiff, and wrote the hit piece in order to accomplish a nefarious purpose. Defendants’ misconduct exemplifies the very worst of modern “journalism”. They should be punished for their unlawful actions and a very strong message needs to be sent to prevent other so-called “journalists” from acting in a similar way.

Link to Nunes' Suit (pdf)
Having read the article in question, this suit seems to me like the defamatory hit-piece Devin accuses Lizza of writing.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Nunes loses again!
In total, however, because Nunes does not show a genuine issue of material fact on all elements of his claim, a reasonable jury could not find in his favor.

 

[DaisyDay]

Nunes loses again!
In total, however, because Nunes does not show a genuine issue of material fact on all elements of his claim, a reasonable jury could not find in his favor.

Summary judgement granted to the defendants by the judge - it didn't even get to the jury.

 

[Say it aint so]

"So much losing, you'll get tired of all the losing."

 

[SimplyMe]

Summary judgement granted to the defendants by the judge - it didn't even get to the jury.

I guess it is good that Nunes sued in Iowa rather than Virginia and that the defendants merely asked for a summary judgement, not to label the claim as "frivolous" (which would have forced Nunes to pay the defendant's costs).

 

[DaisyDay]

From Ron Filipkowski on Twitter: Trump Media filed a $3.78 Billion lawsuit against the Washington Post last night, claiming they published defamatory articles about Truth Social, Donald Trump and CEO Devin Nunes.

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/Complaint%20-%205.20.23_0.pdf

 

[USincognito]

From Ron Filipkowski on Twitter: Trump Media filed a $3.78 Billion lawsuit against the Washington Post last night, claiming they published defamatory articles about Truth Social, Donald Trump and CEO Devin Nunes.

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/Complaint%20-%205.20.23_0.pdf

To be fair. If he somehow wins, he actually will be a billionaire for the first time.

 

[Pommer]

From Ron Filipkowski on Twitter: Trump Media filed a $3.78 Billion lawsuit against the Washington Post last night, claiming they published defamatory articles about Truth Social, Donald Trump and CEO Devin Nunes.

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/Complaint%20-%205.20.23_0.pdf

Discovery ought to be a hoot!

 

[Gene2memE]

It's been filed by some random workers comp/personal injury lawyer from Tampa. Not what you want on a combo defamation and financial law case.

Steve Bliss, who's batting about 0 for 30 in defamation suits at the moment, has also applied for Admission to the case at some later date.

Maybe Larry Klayman and Norm Pattis weren't available? Along with Bliss, they probably make up the Holy Trinity of Bad Right-Wing Defamation Lawsuits. The rest of the conservosphere lolyers are probably tied up representing Jan 6 defendants and culture war cases coming out of Florida.

Also, their damages claims make zero sense. Nunes' other layers (Bliss mostly) have previously been censured for making demands for damages that are (to quote a judge) "not tethered to reality".

And, they're quoting already overturned rulings from Nunes v Lizza! A case that Nunes lost! And Bliss got an ethics complaint about. For anyone unfamiliar, that's the case that confirmed media reporting that Nunes and his family ran their dairy operation on illegally documented labour was true.

Given that there was a SEC complaint about fraud at Truth Social, I'm not sure there is an actual leg to stand on.

Likely gets dismissed as vexatious as soon as a judge looks at it.

 

[SimplyMe]

It's been filed by some random workers comp/personal injury lawyer from Tampa. Not what you want on a combo defamation and financial law case.

Steve Bliss, who's batting about 0 for 30 in defamation suits at the moment, has also applied for Admission to the case at some later date.

Maybe Larry Klayman and Norm Pattis weren't available? Along with Bliss, they probably make up the Holy Trinity of Bad Right-Wing Defamation Lawsuits. The rest of the conservosphere lolyers are probably tied up representing Jan 6 defendants and culture war cases coming out of Florida.

Also, their damages claims make zero sense. Nunes' other layers (Bliss mostly) have previously been censured for making demands for damages that are (to quote a judge) "not tethered to reality".

And, they're quoting already overturned rulings from Nunes v Lizza! A case that Nunes lost! And Bliss got an ethics complaint about. For anyone unfamiliar, that's the case that confirmed media reporting that Nunes and his family ran their dairy operation on illegally documented labour was true.

Given that there was a SEC complaint about fraud at Truth Social, I'm not sure there is an actual leg to stand on.

Likely gets dismissed as vexatious as soon as a judge looks at it.

Unfortunately, I don't think Florida has an anti-SLAPP law that this lawsuit would fall under.

 

[essentialsaltes]

A Florida judge has tossed Devin Nunes’ lawsuit against CNN and one of its anchors, saying that the former congressman filed it in the wrong state.

Nunes, who left Congress in 2022 to become the chief executive of former President Donald Trump’s media company, was suing CNN and Jake Tapper over comments the Washington correspondent made concerning Republicans who spread conspiracy theories about the autumn attack on then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul.

 

[DaisyDay]

Maybe Larry Klayman and Norm Pattis weren't available? Along with Bliss, they probably make up the Holy Trinity of Bad Right-Wing Defamation Lawsuits.

Maybe your being a little sexist there….Christina Bobb, Jenna Ellis and Alina Habba are all strong contenders.

 

[wing2000]

The reporter, Ryan Lizza, seems to mainly have transgressed by detailing how dependent Iowa's dairy farmers (and agriculture in general in this country) are on undocumented labor and the irony of their support for Donald and King. The article is sympathetic to their plight, both the farmers' and the laborers', but there is deep concern that any publicity could bring ICE down upon the town with disastrous consequences for all.

.....you mean there are not enough documented laborers available to milk the cows on the proverbial "family farm"?

 

[DaisyDay]

.....you mean there are not enough documented laborers available to milk the cows on the proverbial "family farm"?

Not at the wages they're willing to pay.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Devin Nunes loses again with perfect comic timing.

Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes suffers another loss in defamation suit after judge found it ‘substantially and objectively true’ that his family farm employed undocumented immigrants​

 

[Pommer]

Devin Nunes loses again with perfect comic timing.

Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes suffers another loss in defamation suit after judge found it ‘substantially and objectively true’ that his family farm employed undocumented immigrants​

Moo

 

[BPPLEE]

Devin Nunes loses again with perfect comic timing.

Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes suffers another loss in defamation suit after judge found it ‘substantially and objectively true’ that his family farm employed undocumented immigrants​

People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks

 

[essentialsaltes]

Nunes defamation lawsuit over Rachel Maddow comment dismissed​

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ruled last week that Nunes failed to prove Maddow and her team at the network acted with actual malice during a discussion about a package Nunes received addressed to him from Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian legislator with ties to Russian officials and intelligence services, while he was the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

ETA: more on Derkach, since the Russia non-hoax is all back in the news again.

Putin to Derkach to Giuliani: US intel reports Russia used Trump allies to influence 2020 election

LINK The US intelligence community said in a landmark report Tuesday that the Russian government meddled in the 2020 election with an influence campaign "denigrating" President Joe Biden and "supporting" former President Donald Trump, detailing a massive disinformation push that successfully...

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