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Lawyer Alan Dershowitz loses appeal in CNN defamation case

The 11th Circuit Court found no evidence of actual malice by CNN commentators, dismissing Alan Dershowitz's $300 million defamation claims from 2020 impeachment coverage.

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By Reuters (CNN) — Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz lost his bid on Friday to overturn a ruling that dismissed his defamation lawsuit against CNN over the news channel’s coverage of remarks he made during President Donald Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Dershowitz presented no evidence that CNN’s reporters and commentators operated with “actual malice” in covering Dershowitz’s defens…

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