In a new filing (PDF) Feb. 15, Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia expressed his displeasure with a decision by defendants in a defamation lawsuit to appeal his denial of their motion to dismiss.
At issue is former U.S. Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod’s defamation lawsuit against blogger Andrew Breitbart and one of his colleagues, Larry O’Connor. Sherrod sued both men in federal court in Washington, D.C., in February 2011, claiming they posted a deceptively edited clip of Sherrod online that eventually got her fired.
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