Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19206531 (191820ZJUL23) Notable: How Rap Legend Tupac Shakur Shot Down Ray Epps Defamation Claim Against Tucker and Revolver News
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This court is not the first to face the issue of whether falsely accusing one of acting as an informant can be defamatory. So far as I can tell, every other court to have considered the question, save one, has held, as a matter of law, that such a statement cannot be defamatory, the sole exception being the Scottish court in the nineteenth-century case of Graham v. Ray, 13 Sess. Cas. 634, 636 (1851). See Burrascano v. Levi, 452 F. Supp. 1066, 1072-73 (D.Md.1978), aff’d sub nom Burrascano v. U.S. Attorney Gen., 612 F.2d 1306 (4th Cir.1979); Saunders v. Board of Directors, WHYY-TV, 382 A.2d 257, 259 (Del.Super.Ct.1978); Heimerle v. Charter Books, 11 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1278, 1279 (Sup.Ct. N.Y. County 1984); Connelly v. McKay, 176 Misc. 685, 28 N.Y.S.2d 327, 329-30 (Sup.Ct. N.Y. County 1941); Rose v. Borenstein, 119 N.Y.S.2d 288, 289-90 (N.Y.City Ct.1953); see also Danias v. Fakis, 261 A.2d 529, 531 (Del.Super.Ct.1969); Hallock v. Miller, 2 Barb. 630 (1848); cf. Daniel More, Informers Defamation and Public Policy, 19 Ga. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 503, 504-09, 524-26 (1989) (discussing cases from the United States and other jurisdictions).[4]
This result is interesting as a matter of defamation law, but represents only one of the myriad ways in which Epps’ lawsuit fails to pass the smell test. Worse than simply being ridiculous, the lawsuit is an offense against not only free speech, but common sense itself.
The events of January 6th have been used by our corrupt Regime to help justify the political weaponization of the DOJ and other national security institutions against patriotic Americans for political purposes. The circumstances surrounding Ray Epps’ behavior raise serious questions to put it most generously, and to put it more realistically, seem to defy any innocent explanation. The notion that jPost too long. Click here to view the full text.