Seth Rich’s family can sue Fox News over the retracted story it ran on a far-right conspiracy theory surrounding their son’s death.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday ruled against a previous district court’s order to dismiss their lawsuit complaint, arguing that the family, Joel and Mary Rich, could in fact sue over emotional distress they claim was caused by the May 2017 article. The article alleged that Seth Rich had leaked Democratic National Committee emails to WikiLeaks and implied that that move had resulted in his murder. The article was retracted a week later for not meeting Fox News’ journalistic standards.
Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi argued in the Friday ruling that the Riches had “sufficiently pleaded extreme and outrageous conduct” by the Fox News defendants.
In a statement shared with TPM Friday, Fox News expressed its condolences to the family but maintained the network was innocent of the allegations.
“The court’s ruling today permits Mr. and Mrs. Rich to proceed with discovery to determine whether there is a factual basis for their claims against FOX News,” the spokesperson said. “And while we extend the Rich family our deepest condolences for their loss, we believe that discovery will demonstrate that FOX News did not engage in conduct that will support the Riches’ claims. We will be evaluating our next legal steps.”
Police believe that Seth Rich was shot and killed near his Washington, D.C. home following a botched robbery in July 2016. At the time, he was working for the DNC. The Rich family sued Fox News and the reporter Malia Zimmerman, as well as Fox News guest Ed Butowsky, over the retracted story, but the lawsuit was dismissed in August 2018 when U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan ruled in favor of longstanding media law that argues a dead person cannot be defamed and said the argument of emotional distress was not sufficient. archive.fo/rH3Ee
>sue them for exposing the clinton crime syndicate, you fucking goyim! Isn't the case still unsolved? Wouldn't the family care more about finding the truth about it than suing some company for suggesting something that wasn't verified enough?
Fox's defense would be to reopen the story and see if he was the leaker and he was killed over it. It's going to be fun unless fox settles.
Easton Bell
His name was not Seth Rich. Delete the thread.
Joseph Johnson
Imagine beings Seth's ghost and you watch your actions shake up all these foundations of countries, causing reverberations throughout the globe and it all gets ruined because your mom turns into a blathering idiot whenever anyone brings you up and your dad enables her to act like a spastic child because hes sad too
Jackson Cruz
They are probably trustees in the seth rich foundation set up by jeffery epstein and funded by the Clinton foundation. Foundations are just vehicles for tax free money laundering.
There was bodycam footage of when the cops found him shot but still alive. It's gone now. Someday I'm going to debunk your head from your body scum bag.
Samuel Morales
Seems likely that if they'd go after him, they'd go after his family for not attempting a lawsuit against those who even just question the suspiciousness of his death.
Remember, this is how the left likes to work. They'd prefer to scare you into silence via claims of racism, bigotry, #metoo stuff, lawsuits, etc, take your pick.
David Edwards
> I-it was real in my head!!!
produce the video or shut the fuck up
Ian James
and yet the kid who stood there when that weird old alcoholic tried to intimidate him can't sue CNN even though they said he was literally Hitler and tried to ruin him for life
is this real? if so, where is it? it does not look like anyone could get away with having that there for very long without it getting taken down eventually, unless, of course, it is on private property
>It's going to be fun unless fox settles They will, sadly.
Thomas Price
The Democratic National Committee is honoring a young staffer who was shot to death near his home in northwest over the summer.
The DNC is dedicating a bike rack outside its headquarters in memory of Seth Rich. The 27-year-old was gunned down in July in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Northwest D.C.
Investigators believe his murder may have been the result of a robbery attempt. No one witnessed the killing and it remains unsolved at this time.
The media group, WikiLeaks, is offering a $20,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in the case.
Republican lobbyist, Jack Burkman, offered a $100,000 reward to help solve the murder.
I mean if these right wing natsies would grow a brain they would understand that now that we have more undocumented Americans, it's much safer in your neighborhood!
There was claims that the store had footage which appeared to show 2 middle eastern or Mexican men standing over Seth's Rich body. There were a high number of cameras in the area because if property crime but the FBI and police never asked for it.
Jayden Scott
Any legal fags out there? Doesn't this also expose the Rich family to discovery by Fox? Can't they ask to see Seth's and his brother's cell phones which were of interest to investigators early on, but the family claimed were private. Any other comms the family might have had with Seth?
William Bailey
I mean, look, if the courts can be manipulated by the intelligence community (Acosta and Epstein), then it doesn't matter if the family could potentially be exposed to discovery. It won't happen. If anything, this looks like a show trial, meant to convey to the world that Seth's family definitely don't believe any of the wild "conspiracy theories" out there, and neither should you.
Yeah everyone should watch this even if it's Mr. tick tock. Rod Wheeler was very close to getting evidence that Seth was the WikiLeaks source. Wheeler was shut down by the FBI DC police and the DNC was involved. The DNC owns the DC police. Debbie Waserman Schultz threatened to take away their funding. They all know that Seth was the Russian hacker but they silenced the family and destroyed the evidence. They destroyed the videos and laptop. His brother Aaron almost admitted to helping Seth with WikiLeaks but he was threatened by the DNC. They're forcing the family to cover it up.
Justin Long
>wouldn't the family care more about finding the truth about it than suing some company for suggesting something that wasn't verified enough?
I think the family are more interested in staying safe.
Seth Rich gets shot and asking about it will get you sued and they built him a bike rack in mockery and nobody batted an eye Ahh yes Gabby Gifford gets shot and we need to have a national discussion about guns for 5 years and everybody loses their minds.
Easton Hill
Convenient Julian Assange is rotting in solitary confinement in England....
when asked for comment Mr. Assange replied... Gaaaaaaa uuuhhh he ..heel... help me.... *thud*
I don’t see how this case would work. Basically seeing any news report about a dead family member would cause emotional distress
Bentley Williams
Ben Swann is pretty based. He's a man of integrity with a degree in some kind theology and he is also a youth pastor of some kind. Interesting background on the guy. He seems to be a Christian libertarian, but in the best pissible way.
Right the idea of no cameras in DC is laughable. To the derrr prove it guy it's the fact that this footage is missing that says everything that needs to be said if it was a simple robbery gone wrong those robbers wouldn't have the power to disappear the footage. The other poster has it right Fox will roll over on this and it will set the legal precedent that anyone that investigates anyone death can get sued for wrong think.
Caleb Moore
yes, I think so because he still needs to maintain the integrity of someone who would never give up his source. it's how he maintains his credibility and trust
