Devin Nunes's Attorney Sanctioned, Ordered to Pay CNN $21,000 For Filing 'Frivolous' Defamation L

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Source: lawandcrime.com




Devin Nunes’s Attorney Sanctioned, Ordered to Pay CNN $21,000 For Filing ‘Frivolous’ Defamation Lawsuit


Jerry Lambe May 6th, 2021, 1:00 pm


A federal judge in Maryland this week followed through on a previous warning to sanction a lawyer best known for representing Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in a series of failed defamation lawsuits against media companies, saying the lawyer’s latest case against CNN was “frivolous” in nature.

U.S. District Judge Richard Bennet, an appointee of George W. Bush, ruled that attorney Steve Biss had “unreasonably and vexatiously” attempted to continue litigating a lawsuit against the news network after the case had already been dismissed with prejudice for failing to state a claim in March. Despite that ruling, Biss filed an amended complaint that the court went on to describe as “nothing more than a repetition of the original complaint with no new material factual allegations.”

The original complaint — filed on behalf of Nunes’s senior aide Derek Harvey against CNN, former Rudy Giuliani business associate Lev Parnas, and Parnas’s attorney Joseph Bondy — stemmed from a November 2020 CNN report that said Parnas was prepared to provide Congress with testimony in connection with Donald Trump’s first impeachment proceeding. CNN reported that Parnas would testify, in effect, that Nunes met with former Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin “to discuss digging up dirt of Joe Biden.”........................

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/devin-nuness-attorney-sanctioned-ordered-to-pay-cnn-21000-for-filing-frivolous-defamation-lawsuit/

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[BootinUp]

1. delish. nt

[RockRaven]

2. More stories like this please!!!

And by stories I mean discrete incidents/happenings, not articles. I'm pleading with The Fates, not the journalists/editors.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. how sweet it is

[JohnnyRingo]

4. I know one news network that will have this in rotation.

"Yes Wolf, and speaking of annoying insects crawling out of the ground..."

[ancianita]

5. Snowflakes do snowflakey suits.

[2Gingersnaps]

6. This treason monkey

is long overdue for his just dessert. Even his cow agrees.

[Historic NY]

7. Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[tanyev]

8. Ooh! Ooh! Now do Sidney Powell and Lin Wood!

[COL Mustard]

9. #ETTD

If you're connected with the former guy in any way, you're done for. Karma is coming for you.

[msfiddlestix]

10. And anyway, isn't Nunes also under investigation ala Ukrainian/Putin mobsters?

I've been meaning to ask Du community, how is it they we never hear from or about Nunes these days? Very curious to me.

I suspect, but do not know, he's under serious level investigation and that's cause for him keeping (what appears to me) a low profile these days. But maybe I've missed public and tv appearances due to my limited viewing of cable shows recently.

[Javaman]

11. mooooore moooooney he needs to pay out. LOL nt

[robbob]

12. "Devin Nunes attorney"?

Sounds like the cow might soon have competition on Twitter...

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

13. Congratulations to Mom and The Cow. N/T

[catrose]

15. Have Mom & Cow suits been settled or tossed? This one was about CNN

Justice for Cow & Mom!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dont-forget-to-tip-your-cow?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer

[twodogsbarking]

14. I'd call that a bargain,

the best he ever had.

[ck4829]

16. Kick