Litigators of the Week: The Boies Schiller Duo Pushing Back Against a Vile Conspiracy Theory
'We hope this case sends the message that litigation can play a role in the defense of objective truth. Free speech is essential to our democratic values, but so is basic human decency.'
October 05, 2018 at 11:55 AM
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Our Litigators of the Week are Boies Schiller Flexner partners Michael Gottlieb and Joshua Riley, who won an important victory in a case that highlights so much of what's gone wrong with political discourse these days.
The Boies Schiller duo represents Aaron Rich, whose brother Seth was murdered—an event that conspiracy theorists see as part of a larger plot involving WikiLeaks and the 2016 presidential election.
In March, Rich sued the Washington Times and several right wing activists in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false light, invasion of privacy and civil conspiracy. “Our constitutional system leaves wide room for debate on issues of public concern, but individuals like defendants poison that deliberate space when they flood it with fabricated information about private figures,” wrote Gottlieb in the complaint.
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