Civil Litigation
Jul. 10, 2019
Defending against retaliatory defamation suits
Moo! When public figures have a cow, they all too often come down with a case of mad lawsuit disease
Selina J. MacLaren
Associate
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Phone: (213) 716-7174
Email: selinamaclaren@dwt.com
Selina MacLaren is an associate with the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine.
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has some beef with a newspaper, a Republican strategist, Twitter and parody Twitter accounts -- all targets of his defamation lawsuits this year. One of the parody accounts claims to be "Devin Nunes' cow." The cow's critiques of Nunes, calling him "udder-ly worthless" and a "treasonous cowpoke," were tweeted to a modest herd of 1,204 followers. But within two days of the suit, the cow's followers surged to nearly half a million, surp...
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