A federal judge on Friday threw out a libel lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes
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Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the US District Court threw out the lawsuit, which claimed $ 435 million in damages, due to a technical problem. Nunes’ legal team argued that the court should apply Virginia or Washington, DC laws to the case, while Swain said Nunes’s home state of California laws should be applied.
Plaintiff … argues that if the court were to look at the place where he sustained the greatest injury, the laws of Virginia or the District of Columbia should apply as he fulfills his role of overseeing intelligence community activities, ”Swain, a Clinton appointee, wrote in her statement.
Nunes provides no additional facts to support his conclusion that he sustained significant injuries in Virginia or District of Columbia, much less severe there than in the home state that sends him to Congress as his district’s representative. His amended complaint claims he is a citizen of California and describes his long family ties with and extensive political service in and for the state of California and its citizens. “
Nunes’s lawsuit centered around a CNN report that stated that a testimony would come in which he claimed the California Republican had met with a Ukrainian prosecutor in 2018 to gather damaging information about Biden, who was then planning to become president. to become. Nunes, who chaired the House Intelligence Committee at the time, vehemently denied the report and filed an avalanche of lawsuits against CNN.
The news network, a favorite target of the former President Trump
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A spokesman for Nunes did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.