On the anniversary, my fellow defendant Mark Steyn remembers the last time a president was (entirely justifiably) impeached.
And as I typed this, I just realized that I forgot to commemorate the sixth anniversary of that infamous Blog Post which resulted in the never-ending lawsuit against me, CEI, National Review, and Mark (though he is now eager to go to trial having made a lot of money selling a book against the plaintiff). And it’s been over two years since our request for an en banc appeal, with no ruling from the DC Circuit.
I suppose if the case ever went to jury; your defense would be told not to allow this testimony, “the plaintiff was so harmed by our speech that in the past 6 years he’s maintained his job and salary. Meanwhile, none of his predictions, from the models we questioned, have come true. ” One would think that if a person was truly harmed by defamation; then the evidence would be obvious by now.
Heh, +10
I don’t follow legal stuff, is a delay like this typical or is this a very abnormal case in terms of length? The whole thing should have been laughed out of court to begin with.
From what I’ve seen of cases like this; the game by both sides is to delay. For Mann’s side; it pressures the Defendants to self-censor, lest they add fresh evidence (not that it is working on Stein). For CEI’s side; if there is any negative ruling, it won’t come until whatever financial gain may come from suing would be useless. In short, its the old yarn that the process is the punishment.
It would better if we had a judicial system that could look at a case like this, and throw it out. That’s what Rand’s side requested, but the illiberal judge involved isn’t too bright. Yeah, this stuff doesn’t pass the giggle test, yet it persists.