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February 9, 20242 min readMichael Mann secured a win in his legal battle against conservative bloggers who said the climatologist “molested and tortured data” and compared him to a convicted child abuserBy Pamela King & E&E News CLIMATEWIRE | Climate scientist Michael Mann on Thursday secured a win in his long-running legal battle against conservative bloggers who once compared him to a convicted child abuser.After a four-week trial, a D.C. Superior Court jury awarded the climatologist $1 million after finding…

E. Jean Carroll says looking at Donald Trump during his defamation trial last week was “like looking at nothing” or “an emperor without clothes.” The author and journalist who sued the former reality star and U.S. president after he claimed that she fabricated a sexual assault allegation against him to sell a book — an allegation a Manhattan federal jury found Trump liable for last year — spoke to CNN This Morning‘s Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly Monday. With the duo, Carroll discussed being…

After a miserable NFL parody cold open and a cheeky monologue featuring host Dakota Johnson (dressed to the nines in a black jumpsuit reminiscent of Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag), musical guest Justin Timberlake, and his pal Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che took over. And you just knew they were going to address columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial win over Donald Trump. Yes, in June of 2019, Carroll penned a column in The Cut alleging that…

A jury has awarded a huge $83.3 million in additional damages to advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. The verdict was delivered Friday by a seven-man, two-woman jury in a trial regularly attended by Trump, who abruptly left the courtroom during closing arguments by Carroll’s lawyer, only to later return. Carroll smiled as the verdict was read. By then, Trump had left the…

NEW YORK —  A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.Friday’s verdict was the second time in nine months that a jury addressed Carroll’s claim that Trump assaulted her in a New York City department store in 1996. Another jury last May found Trump liable for sexual abuse and ordered him to pay $5 million. This defamation trial was over things Trump said…

The defamation trial will begin in January after an appeals court rejected Trump's presidential immunity defense and a motion to stay that ruling E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump will go ahead in January after an appeals court rejected the former president’s motion to stay a previous ruling denying his attempt to use presidential immunity as a defense. Trump’s legal team filed the motion last week, seeking a 90-day stay to consider other appellate court options, or…

Kevin Hart is taking legal action against his former assistant and controversial YouTuber Tasha K over an alleged extortion surrounding a “defamatory” interview. On Tuesday, the actor filed the complaint in L.A. Superior Court alleging that Tasha K, born Latasha Kebe, asked for a $250,000 ransom so that she not publish a “defamatory” interview with his former personal assistant Miesha Shakes. The lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, accuses both Kebe and Shakes of extortion and invasion of privacy, Shakes of…

A woman is suing Blueface for defamation after the rapper claimed in a series of social media posts that Soulja Boy’s one-year-old son could be his child. Jackilyn Martinez, who shares a young son with Soulja Boy, filed her complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. She alleged her lawyers sent Blueface a cease-and-desist letter on Tuesday, but he “callously and mockingly” responded on Instagram with a post reading, “Nobody even said your name.” Martinez stated in her filing that while she did have…

Mexican singer and actress Mary Boquitas was shut down by a Los Angeles judge Friday after she tried to countersue two Jane Does for defamation. The women named her as a co-defendant in the blockbuster sex abuse lawsuit filed last year against pop diva Gloria Trevi and disgraced Mexican music producer Sergio Andrade. At a morning hearing, Judge Ralph C. Hofer ruled that Boquitas had no grounds to sue the Does for defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress considering their “allegedly…

Co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che also made their highly anticipated joke swap A day after Rudy Giuliani was hit with a massive, $148 million judgement in a defamation case brought by two Atlanta poll workers, SNL‘s Weekend Update rubbed in the consequences of his many false claims. “You might as well just make it a billion , because there’s no way he can pay it. At this point, they only call Giuliani the mayor of 9/11 because that’s all that’s left in his bank account,” Jost joked.…