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Beebs52 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

eyégor wrote:

And a fly is a genius when compared to an amoeba.

Glad to see public debate on this bored has progressed to the high level reached here in my absence

Well, the Merry Men all left and that sent the collective IQ of the Bored plummeting...

lb13

Yeah, but you know you loves us ' cause we're YOUR morons.

eyégor wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

Well, the Merry Men all left and that sent the collective IQ of the Bored plummeting...

lb13

Yeah, but you know you loves us ' cause we're YOUR morons.

True, all too true

Beebs52 wrote:

eyégor wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:
Yeah, but you know you loves us ' cause we're YOUR morons.

True, all too true

I so love it when peeps descend to my level. Gor!

Billy Bored Thornton wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:

eyégor wrote:

True, all too true

I so love it when peeps descend to my level. Gor!

I so love it when a Bored gal talks dirty. I'm ready to descend.


Cupcake.

I think people have every right to say what they want. If they wanna smear someone, they can do it.

silverscreenselect wrote:Well, the defamation lawsuit craze is taking off in right-wing circles. Devin Nunes has filed a $250M suit against Twitter, Republican political consultant Liz Mair, and two Twitter users identified only as "Devin Nunes' Mom" and "Devin Nunes' Cow" claiming that they:

maliciously attacked every aspect of Nunes’ character, honesty, integrity, ethics, and fitness to perform his duties as a United States Congressman.” The attacks included accusing Nunes of racism, claiming he had obstructed justice in the Congressional probe on Russian political interference, and calling him a “treasonous cowpoke.”

Among the comments from Devin's cow during the last election campaign: "Devin’s boots are full of manure. He’s udder-ly worthless and it’s pasture time to mooove him to prison."

Obviously, California voters didn't do quite good enough a job of getting rid of the trash this last election. By the way, Devin's Cow had just over 1,000 followers before the lawsuit was filed yesterday and over 70,000 now.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/18/1827 ... defamation

Nunes declared that McClatchy reporters need “to come clean with the American people” and retract their “fake news” reports. He said he wants such stories scrubbed from the internet and promised more legal challenges. "If you’re out there and you lied and you defamed, we are going to come after you,” he told [interviewer Sean] Hannity.

Nunes claims in the suit that the attacks on him were made, in part, to “interfere with and divert Nunes’ attention from his investigation of corruption and alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election.”

silverscreenselect wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:Well, the defamation lawsuit craze is taking off in right-wing circles. Devin Nunes has filed a $250M suit against Twitter, Republican political consultant Liz Mair, and two Twitter users identified only as "Devin Nunes' Mom" and "Devin Nunes' Cow" claiming that they:

maliciously attacked every aspect of Nunes’ character, honesty, integrity, ethics, and fitness to perform his duties as a United States Congressman.” The attacks included accusing Nunes of racism, claiming he had obstructed justice in the Congressional probe on Russian political interference, and calling him a “treasonous cowpoke.”

Among the comments from Devin's cow during the last election campaign: "Devin’s boots are full of manure. He’s udder-ly worthless and it’s pasture time to mooove him to prison."

Obviously, California voters didn't do quite good enough a job of getting rid of the trash this last election. By the way, Devin's Cow had just over 1,000 followers before the lawsuit was filed yesterday and over 70,000 now.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/18/1827 ... defamation

Nunes has now filed another $150M defamation suit against Liz Mair, who was also a defendant in his first suit, and McClatchy Publishing, owners of his local paper, the Fresno Bee.

Nunes declared that McClatchy reporters need “to come clean with the American people” and retract their “fake news” reports. He said he wants such stories scrubbed from the internet and promised more legal challenges. "If you’re out there and you lied and you defamed, we are going to come after you,” he told [interviewer Sean] Hannity.

Nunes claims in the suit that the attacks on him were made, in part, to “interfere with and divert Nunes’ attention from his investigation of corruption and alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election.”

By Russian involvement, Nunes means his claim that they helped Hillary Clinton and did such a good job of it that (a) there's no trace of their involvement and (b) she didn't win. One good thing to come from all this is that Nunes and his lawyers may become very familiar with Federal Rule 11, which has to do with filing groundless and frivolous lawsuits.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-go ... 04754.html

silverscreenselect wrote:The lawsuit has been dismissed by a federal judge:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 842030001/

Too bad the Post probably won't be able to recover its attorney fees.

silverscreenselect wrote:

jarnon wrote: The usual "absence of malice" defense won't work here because Sandmann isn't a public figure.

It's more complicated than that. There's such a thing as a "limited purpose public figure." "A limited purpose public figure is one who voluntarily injects their views or is otherwise drawn into a particular controversy by their conduct; they are, therefore, treated as public figures when they sue for defamatory statements bearing on that controversy."

It can and certainly will be argued that Sandman was drawn into this controversy by his conduct.

silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:22 am

Well, the defamation lawsuit craze is taking off in right-wing circles. Devin Nunes has filed a $250M suit against Twitter, Republican political consultant Liz Mair, and two Twitter users identified only as "Devin Nunes' Mom" and "Devin Nunes' Cow" claiming that they:

maliciously attacked every aspect of Nunes’ character, honesty, integrity, ethics, and fitness to perform his duties as a United States Congressman.” The attacks included accusing Nunes of racism, claiming he had obstructed justice in the Congressional probe on Russian political interference, and calling him a “treasonous cowpoke.”

Among the comments from Devin's cow during the last election campaign: "Devin’s boots are full of manure. He’s udder-ly worthless and it’s pasture time to mooove him to prison."

Obviously, California voters didn't do quite good enough a job of getting rid of the trash this last election. By the way, Devin's Cow had just over 1,000 followers before the lawsuit was filed yesterday and over 70,000 now.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/18/1827 ... defamation

silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:14 pm

Devin Nunes and his cow are back in the news as his lawyer has asked the judge in this case to hold Twitter in contempt for failure to reveal the identity of the cow and Devin's mother since Devin's legal team has been unable to do so as yet (presumably so they can personally serve them in this case). Twitter is resisting the motion, claiming immunity from online defamation lawsuits. Although the judge didn't issue a ruling, he appeared skeptical of Nunes' claimis.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics ... 88476.html

silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2020 4:24 pm

silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:14 pm

Devin Nunes and his cow are back in the news as his lawyer has asked the judge in this case to hold Twitter in contempt for failure to reveal the identity of the cow and Devin's mother since Devin's legal team has been unable to do so as yet (presumably so they can personally serve them in this case). Twitter is resisting the motion, claiming immunity from online defamation lawsuits. Although the judge didn't issue a ruling, he appeared skeptical of Nunes' claimis.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics ... 88476.html

Score one for the cow as the court has thrown out Nunes suit against Twitter for posting statements from the cow account like "Devin's boots are full of manure." Hopefully, Twitter will also recover a pretty penny in legal fees from Nunes as well. Meanwhile, Nunes' other lawsuits continue against Hearst, the Washington Post, CNN, and others.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06 ... r-cow.html