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Flynn Family's SLAPP Suit Against CNN Slapped Down By Judge (Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/25/flynn-familys-slapp-suit-against-cnn-slapped-down-by-judge/Flynn Family’s SLAPP Suit Against CNN Slapped Down By Judge
from the where-we-slapp-one,-we-slapp-all dept
Thu, Apr 25th 2024 08:05pm - Mike Masnick
MAGA SLAPP suits apparently aren’t going out of style, but yet another one has been tossed out of court.
Remember lawyer Steven Biss? He was the grand filer of tons of SLAPP suits for the MAGA crowd against media outlets. He had quite a losing streak, with nearly all of those cases failing. Last fall, I heard some rumors that Biss had either died or was facing serious health problems. In September, reporter Josh Gerstein broke the news that he’d had a stroke. In January, Biss’ law license was suspended, not for all of his frivolous cases, but “on impairment grounds.”
However, many of his cases were handed off to another MAGA lawyer, Jesse Binnall, who, at one time, was “Trump’s top election fraud lawyer,” to give you some sense of his worldview and credibility.
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from the where-we-slapp-one,-we-slapp-all dept
Thu, Apr 25th 2024 08:05pm - Mike Masnick
MAGA SLAPP suits apparently aren’t going out of style, but yet another one has been tossed out of court.
Remember lawyer Steven Biss? He was the grand filer of tons of SLAPP suits for the MAGA crowd against media outlets. He had quite a losing streak, with nearly all of those cases failing. Last fall, I heard some rumors that Biss had either died or was facing serious health problems. In September, reporter Josh Gerstein broke the news that he’d had a stroke. In January, Biss’ law license was suspended, not for all of his frivolous cases, but “on impairment grounds.”
However, many of his cases were handed off to another MAGA lawyer, Jesse Binnall, who, at one time, was “Trump’s top election fraud lawyer,” to give you some sense of his worldview and credibility.
[...]
