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ents expand collapse read more georgia s secretary of state slapped with frivolous lawsuits the case for a federal anti slapp law defamation from the protect free speech for real dept thu aug 22nd 2024 01 00pm mike masnick last week the ny times had an article about how georgia s republican secretary of state brad raffensperger is being targeted in a slapp suit by a podcaster who claims raffensperger defamed her in his book about the 2020 election for reasons unknown the ny times links to none of the legal filings in the case but we ll rectify all that below the case is a perfect example of why we desperately need a federal anti slapp law that protects everyone from vexatious litigation designed to suppress speech raffensperger has been a target for the maga crowd ever since he turned down donald trump s january 2 2021 request to find 11 780 votes for him to win in georgia by noting that none of the conspiracy theory ideas trump was pushing about the election in georgia had proven true given that raffensperger ally georgia governor brian kemp has something of a history with pro gop shenanigans in how they conduct elections the fact that even he wouldn t humor this kind of nonsense from trump says something later that year raffensperger published integrity counts a book that attempts to explain his side of what happened during the 2020 election eleven months later jacki pick sued raffensperger for defamation in judge reed o connor s court in texas she claimed that the book which does not mention her defames her from the complaint in the book raffensperger refers to the video presented to the committee as a sliced and diced video raffensperger states that the state farm arena video presented to the committee by ms pick alone had been deceptively sliced and edited so that it appeared to show the exact opposite of reality book p 138 that is he called ms pick a liar and accused her of actions constituting a crime under georgia law raffensperger further claimed that ms pick s presentation showed a slice of video that had removed the clear evidence that fulton county election workers had protected the ballots and the process as required by law raffensperger later again referred to the video as a chopped up video book p 139 in later public statements raffensperger described the video shown by ms pick as doctored and false in his motion to dismiss raffensperger rightly focused on the fact that texas had no jurisdiction over him for such a case in sum defendant had no contacts with texas even his distributor had no contacts with texas in connection with his book all plaintiff has been able to establish through jurisdictional discovery is that independent third party retailers had contacts with texas when selling defendant s book and those contacts cannot be imputed to defendant and thus judge o connor tossed the case over this issue last year first defendant did not reference texas in the book nor did he reference any texas based activities of plaintiff see revell 317 f 3d at 473 instead defendant s statements concerned issues exclusively related to georgia and plaintiff s testimony at the hearing in the georgia legislature second when making the allegedly defamatory comments defendant does not appear to rely on any texas sources third defendant s comments in the book and in nationally public statements do not concern texas for these reasons the court concludes that it does not possess specific jurisdiction over defendant but that didn t stop pick who refiled the case in georgia earlier this year in the new motion to dismiss he filed last week raffensperger points out that pick is never even mentioned in the book here nowhere in the book is there any specific mention of plaintiff in discussing the december 3 legislative hearing in a section pointedly titled giuliani s sliced and diced video the book refers only to the presentation of witnesses and a video by rudy giuliani and other lawyers for president trump a category that plaintiff s original complaint took pains to make clear did not include plaintiff giuliani s sliced and diced video does not single out any editor or presenter of the videotape other than of course giuliani and it is giuliani and giuliani alone whom the book accuses of using the selective portions of the videotape shown during the hearing to mislead the georgia legislature giuliani intentionally misled our senators ex 1 at 139 in its numerous discussions of giuliani s suitcases full of fraudulent ballots claim the book never identifies any individual on the trump team paid or volunteer lawyer or otherwise other than giuliani whenever integrity counts mentions the state farm security videotape it is never ambiguous about the individual upon whom it places responsibility and opprobrium for the misleading excerpts and their use giuliani and then he argues that nothing he said in the book was false plaintiff s first contention seems to be that integrity counts falsely implied that the state farm videotape presented to the general assembly had been physically altered prior to its presentation or to have been presented in a nondeceptive manner was required to have been played in full all 20 plus hours of it am compl 3 5 86 this contention is entirely without merit the book makes neither implication rather it accurately states that by using some segments of the state farm video to arouse suspicions while ignoring other segments that made clear those suspicions were baseless rudy giuliani and other lawyers for president trump presented witnesses and a video that had been deceptively sliced and edited so that it appeared to show the exact opposite of reality ex 1 at 138 the context makes clear that the descriptors sliced and diced chopped up and the like were used to emphasize the point that key portions of the video disproving giuliani s assertion of fraudulent ballots had not been shown to the legislature or tweeted to the public those descriptors were figurative not literal and under wellestablished law not actionable horsley 292 f 3d at 701 02 n 2 bryant 311 ga app at 243 plaintiff s second contention that two suitcases references in the book falsely defamed her is also meritless whether or not as plaintiff claims it was common for fulton county election officials and others to colloquially refer to ballot containers as suitcases it cannot be denied that giuliani and others including the president himself were using the term to falsely assert that the boxes were not official and the ballots within them fraudulent see e g ex 1 at 168 69 trump t hey weren t in an official voter box they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks suitcases the statements plaintiff challenges an investigative reporter s not suitcases tweet and gabriel sterling s secret suitcase discussion were countering these assertions and as the critical omitted segment of the state farm video makes clear were plainly correct and accurate in doing so plaintiff was not defamed by the statements nor were they in any way false finally with respect to plaintiff s overall contention that integrity counts somehow singled her out which it did not and specifically accused her which it did not of having presented misleading evidence to the georgia legislature the fact is that she did present misleading evidence to the georgia legislature her presentation distorted affidavits and played a videotape to raise suspicions about the chain of custody of suitcases of ballots that goes to fraud or misrepresentation that other portions of the videotape that she did not play showed to be baseless see pages 4 7 supra plaintiff did not go so far as giuliani in claiming that her presentation conclusively established the existence of criminal fraud but it was her presentation and its critical omission that served to justify and propagate the claim as the ny times article points out raffensperger has spent around 500 000 out of his own pocket defending the lawsuit mr raffensperger who self published his book is paying legal expenses out of his own pocket he has recently launched a legal defense fund to help defray the costs i have incurred over 500 000 in legal fees to fight these frivolous claims mr raffensperger said in a statement not every election official is going to be able to withstand that type of pressure he said this should send alarms to every election official across the country the ny times piece also notes that pick has offered to settle the case but only if raffensperger makes a statement that he doesn t believe is true ms pick s lawyers let it be known that if mr raffensperger wanted to settle the case he would first have to say publicly that her presentation of the video was not deceptive in other words mr raffensperger says he would effectively have to tell his own new lie this all appears to be a classic slapp strategic lawsuit against public participation raffensperger spoke out about what happened with the 2020 election in georgia which is obviously a topic of immense public interest pick s lawsuits appear very much designed to suppress that speech and pressure raffensperger to say something he does not believe is true pick also has vast resources because she is married to a mega millionaire gop donor doug deason the wealthy can file these lawsuits at no significant expense but defending them is way more expensive in money time and overall stress note that raffensperger has already spent half a million dollars just covering an easily dismissed over jurisdiction case in texas and just getting to the motion to dismiss stage in the case in georgia basically the very first step the cost can only go up and potentially massively from here this is exactly what anti slapp laws were supposed to protect against wealthy litigants can file vexatious and resource intensive litigation against people for their speech in an effort to get them to suppress their speech notably both texas and georgia have pretty strong anti slapp laws those laws allow defendants to quickly stop costly discovery and make a motion to get the case kicked out quickly and importantly make the slapping plaintiff pay the legal fees of the defendant tragically both the 5th circuit covering texas and the 11th circuit covering georgia have decided that anti slapp laws cannot be used in federal court where both of pick s lawsuits have been filed that means those laws are useless here this is why we absolutely need a federal anti slapp law that can be applied in these kinds of cases such anti slapp laws are a necessary component to make sure that the free speech rights we all supposedly have under the first amendment are actually achievable in practice they are desperately needed to protect freedom of expression around the country but certainly in cases like this involving election officials in the ny times article raffensperger notes that these kinds of attacks are only likely to become more common against election officials but they re already all too common against all sorts of people this is why a federal anti slapp law and good state anti slapp laws in every state is such a critical need and yet none of the recent attempts to pass one has gone anywhere without such laws lawsuits like this can drain both the time and the wallets of anyone even public officials like raffensperger filed under 2020 election anti slapp brad raffensperger defamation donald trump federal anti slapp law georgia jacki pick slapp slapp suits texas 38 comments expand collapse read more ad execs speak out musk s lawsuit makes extwitter even less appealing failures from the it s totally on you elon dept thu aug 15th 2024 09 33am mike masnick would you believe that elon suing former advertisers for no longer advertising on extwitter isn t magically making advertisers want to come back and is instead driving them further away a quick timeline in november of last year elon musk told advertisers to go fuck themselves if they were upset about content on extwitter this was after the site had already lost a ton of advertisers mostly due to elon s own penchant for sharing ignorant bigoted nonsense which made advertisers feel unsafe to have their brands associated with musk on july 1st extwitter excitedly rejoined garm the global alliance for responsible media announcing they were proud to work with garm to make sure that brands felt safe on the site formerly known as twitter they timed this to line up with the big cannes lions festival which is where a ton of important advertising deals are generally locked up extwitter seemed to feel it needed to do this to get advertisers to trust the platform again on july 10th jim jordan released a typically misleading report accusing garm of colluding to cut off funding from conservative media including elon s extwitter elon then announced he would be suing garm the same organization his company excitedly rejoined a week earlier on august 1st jim jordan sent letters to a long list of advertisers demanding to know why they won t advertise on trumpist media sites which is frankly none of his fucking business on august 6th elon followed through on his threat and had extwitter sue garm the world federation of advertisers the body that created garm and some of the biggest brand companies in the world cvs mars orsted unilever on august 8th garm which was a two person non profit announced it was shutting down noting that it simply did not have the resources to fight the lawsuit which would likely cost many times over garm s operating budget many people quite reasonably called out the absolute absurdity of elon basically suing advertisers for not wanting to advertise on his site however i saw plenty of people suggest that there was a long term strategy here and that by suing he was making sure that future attempts to pull advertising from the site would be more limited in power you know just like how a bunch of silly people keep thinking that donald trump is somehow playing 4d chess when the man wouldn t know a chess board from a ouija board this week ceo in title only linda yaccarino gave another one of her word salad interviews to the friendly ny post she insisted this wasn t about punishing advertisers for refusing to advertise but about fixing a broken ad ecosystem we were victimized by a small group of people pushing their authority or ability to monopolize what gets monetized yaccarino said garm was just a symptom but finding the root cause of the entire ecosystem being broken that s what the suit is about and i mean yaccarino used to be a top ad exec at nbcuniversal she has to know that what she s saying is obvious bullshit she has to know that none of her former colleagues will buy any of it extwitter was not victimized by a small group of people pushing their authority extwitter was victimized by a very rich owner who doesn t understand some of the fundamentals of advertising and how things work he personally drove billions of dollars worth of advertising away yaccarino could hav...