Court Rejects Effort to Sue Former President Clinton

kskiska

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Mon Jun-14-04 10:11 PM
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Court Rejects Effort to Sue Former President Clinton

Former representative Robert L. Barr Jr. cannot bring a $30 million defamation suit against former president Bill Clinton, Democratic political adviser James Carville and publisher Larry Flynt, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.

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As to Flynt, the panel ruled that Barr's claim is barred by the First Amendment because he failed to show that the information printed in a one-time issue called "The Flynt Report" was false or was published with knowledge that it was false.

Flynt's article included allegations by Barr's former wife that the congressman had an affair in the mid-1980s. It also said that in contrast to his public opposition to abortion, he drove his wife to a clinic to have an abortion performed.

Barr alleged Carville gave Flynt Barr's FBI files and other documents as part of a smear campaign, but Flynt denied it.

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Catherine Vincent

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Mon Jun-14-04 10:14 PM
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1. Poor Bob Barr.

Not! LOL!

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LittleApple81

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Mon Jun-14-04 10:16 PM
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2. They don't quit, do they??? n/t

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theivoryqueen

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Mon Jun-14-04 10:41 PM
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3. oh dear god what a useless twat

WTF was/is he thinking - alienate all future girlfriends?

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JI7

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Mon Jun-14-04 10:44 PM
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4. HAHHAHAHAHAHHA

right wing assholes can't get over Clinton kicking their asses. even after impeachment and other crap clinton still left office popular while bob barf lost the election.

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mbperrin

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Mon Jun-14-04 10:48 PM
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5. So Barr admits that if the FBI were watching,

that he DID DO what was said?

In other words, it WASN'T made up?

Dumb dumb dumb. Course anyone whose family named him for a French elephant (Bobbarr vs Babar) could sue that family!

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Tight_rope

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Mon Jun-14-04 10:52 PM
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6. Damn...so now the neo-cons are trying to get Clinton hard earned money!

Correction: "HARD EARNED HONEST MONEY". Not dirty money like that of Bush, Cheney, Rummy, and let's not for get DeLay.:argh:

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