Judge Orders OAN to Pay Rachel Maddow and MSNBC $250,000 in Attorney Fees For Filing Frivolous Defam

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A federal judge in California has ordered Herring Networks, the parent company of far-right conservative media organization One America News Network (OAN), to pay MSNBC and host Rachel Maddow $250,000 in attorney’s fees stemming from a defamation lawsuit that was dismissed last year.

Herring in July 2019 filed a lawsuit against Maddow which claimed the liberal host had defamed OAN when she discussed reports that one of the network’s contributors also worked for the Russia state news organization Sputnik. Maddow went on to state that OAN “literally is paid Russian propaganda,” which OAN’s parent company claimed was false and defamatory. Herring, the parent company, then filed a defamation lawsuit seeking $10 million.

Attorneys representing Maddow and MSNBC responded by filing a special motion to strike the case under California’s Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (Anti-SLAPP) law. Such measures are meant to prevent people and companies from using the courts to stifle constitutionally protected First Amendment speech.

Siding against OAN, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant, an appointee of President Barack Obama, dismissed the suit with prejudice. Bashant reasoned that there was “no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow’s statement.”

https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/judge-orders-oan-to-pay-rachel-maddow-and-msnbc-250000-in-attorney-fees-for-filing-frivolous-defamation-lawsuit/

[Ford_Prefect]

1. OAN: Fact Free with a side of Russian. Are we Surprised?

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2. Thier origin is the Falun Gong cult that was thrown out of China in the early 90's.

I know "cause my crazy older sister the respiratory therapist trained" complete total rw nutjob...
said to me in an e-mail when I confronted her with her lunacy.....
"What's wrong with the falun gong?" she writes to me......It's a fucking cult that's what's wrong.

What do you expect to hear from someone in the cult. The Epoch Times is their newspaper programming device
and OAN is their "news" channel..Thanx to whoever let these wierdo's in.

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3. This makes me smile

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4. K and R