Attorneys at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan made a rare slide into first base Friday in a defamation case brought on behalf of two major league baseball players against the Al-Jazeera network and reporter Deborah Davies.
U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the District of Columbia denied in part a motion from Davies and Al-Jazeera to dismiss the case filed by Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals and Ryan Howard, formerly of the Philadelphia Phillies. The players allege the network knowingly published a documentary that falsely accused them of using performance enhancing drugs. The documentary featured recordings of a distributor of PEDs who, before the documentary was published, recanted his statements that Zimmerman and Howard used them.
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