Maddow and MSNBC win $258,000 in attorney fees after beating OAN in court: report

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By Bob Brigham
Published February 06, 2021

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Far-right One America News must pay $258,391.50 in legal fees to MSNBC.

"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," Law & Crime reported Saturday.

"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," Law & Crime explained. "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."

https://www.rawstory.com/rachel-maddow-oan/

[Gothmog]

1. This makes me smile

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[turbinetree]

2. I also this just makes me smile........

[msfiddlestix]

3. Well it does surprise me Rachael Maddow would have reported anything as "matter of fact"

regarding claims about anyone or anything if she didn't have documented evidence, she's generally so careful about fact checking.

But I think the most egregious part of this Judge's ruling seems to be based on his his opinion about anything he regards as hyperbole and opinion is an automatically not considered defamatory. Anyway it's just a bit weird to me.