Bad news for Pat. Similar lawsuit was just thrown out

[cliveowen]

Case is eerily similar to Pats. A rich heiress reporter named Sulome Anderson was suing a small online publication for basically calling her a hack.

Its a long article, so here are the highlights:

Sulome was making plans to file a million-dollar lawsuit blaming a couple of independent journalists from a small online publication for ruining her high-flying career.

In preparing her legal strategy, a clearly desperate Sulome decided to pin her case on the completely false allegation that The Grayzone supposedly controlled its own personal Twitter troll farm, and had thereby engaged in a “tortious conspiracy” to destroy her career.

She and her lawyer seemed to believe that this claim would prompt a judge to give her discovery, thus enabling her to prove a conspiracy that existed only in their overactive imaginations.

Sulome thus accused us of direct responsibility for weaponizing a random assortment of Twitter users, or “Joe Doe’s,” which mockingly branded her a CIA and/or Mossad agent, despite the fact that we had no acquaintance or affiliation with any of them. As the court noted in its opinion, we never actually made any such assertion about the plaintiff.

One of the anonymous accused “Joe Doe’s” went by the moniker “Time Traveling Russian Hacker,” a clearly tongue-in-cheek reference to the Russian collusion drama that had consumed official Washington in Cold War paranoia. Any level-headed observer would have chuckled at the account’s name, but for Sulome and her crack legal team, this account’s activity was serious enough to cite in their complaint as evidence of a nefarious conspiracy.

As absurd as Sulome’s complaint might have seemed, its implications for press freedom were grave. If validated by a judge, it would have set the stage for a tsunami of lawsuits that could have destroyed platforms like Twitter, making users liable for retweets (whether or not they were actually endorsing those positions) and for statements by random online strangers based on an alleged common ideology.

The District of Columbia Superior Court has rejected a frivolous, million-dollar lawsuit claiming libel, defamation, and tortious conspiracy filed by writer Sulome Anderson against The Grayzone’s editor Max Blumenthal and assistant editor Ben Norton.

Superior Court Judge Jackson went on to reject the allegation that formed the heart of Sulome’s legal assault: that we had engaged in a nefarious conspiracy to defame her with a collection of anonymous Twitter accounts with which we had no connection. If a judge had validated such an absurd claim, Sulome’s legal assault could have made social media users liable for tweets by anonymous users simply because they shared similar opinions or ideology.

In a statement to The Grayzone, our legal defenders at Hawgood & Moran Law described Sulome’s complaint as “a Trojan Horse that would have ended the free and open exchange of ideas on social media.”

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

It’s very tough to fight the first amendment. Plus it’s very stupid to even try.

 

[Pringle Can Lothario]

Shit. Hadn't thought about making connections between the Pepperoni Princess of Milwaukee to the Mossad.

 

[cliveowen]

It’s very tough to fight the first amendment. Plus it’s very stupid to even try.

Sulome was incredibly rich and was basically just trying to bankrupt the grayzone. She also had one of the (((top))) law firms in DC representing her

Pat is very poor and has some fat whores brother representing him.

 

[Gay Faggot.]

The case of Patrick S Tomlinson vs The Gayzone is going to be more pivotal in American free speech.

 

[CanISitOnJonsLap]

Shit. Hadn't thought about making connections between the Pepperoni Princess of Milwaukee to the Mossad.

Pretty funny bit if all this time Patrick has been an undercover operative for some foreign government trying to destabilize America from within.

 

[peckafacce]

No child, there's are not the same, did anybody throw pepperoni on her sidewalk, or vandalize her fag scooter with a chalk pen? I'm sorry you're so atupid.

 

[RobertMewler]

Now, if they had called her fat she'd be swimming in cash by now.

 

[Easily_Remembered]

I guess that the horses weren't all ready out of the barn in her case, otherwise the case would have likely continued.

 

[soulbrotherman#1]

"it would have set the stage for a tsunami of lawsuits that could have destroyed platforms like Twitter"

..hold the phone...

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

I hope quasi buys a newer better mustang than pats with the court awarded money and that he whips some donuts in front of the hovel on his way to hooligans.

 

[UnPRePared]

This is a far bigger example, but it echoes my thoughts of why I never thought Pat was going to win this (forgive any grammar mistakes, I'm not a Tomlinson, just been sipping whiskey on an empty stomach. Sometimes I hate long tour bus rides...)

Him winning his lawsuit sets a precedent that wouldn't just affect the so-called trolls he's pointing at in the shadows - it would effect anyone criticizing online. What you guys do is take his own words and use them against him, pointing at his flaws, and thereby insulting good character with classix, exaggerated insults - i.e. criticism. If he wins that, anyone criticizing someone online within legal, non-libelous means could be SUBPOENA'D in their very own lolsuit.

Your courts are a joke as it is - it would be worse if a case like that won. That's why it won't. He pissed away money like a Hilton, when he's no more solvent than a Bates Motel.

Yes child, you will make a very fine pizza...

 

[Uncle Floyd]

I hope quasi buys a newer better mustang than pats with the court awarded money and that he whips some donuts in front of the hovel on his way to hooligans.

C'mon, gang! We're headed to Hooligan's! Meatloaf's on Quasi!

 

[Udders]

Tick Tock Pat, oinky doodles!

 

[Uncle Anthony Cumia]

This case has been a dog since day 1. It’s clear Resto is using the mafia tactic of a bust out on Pat.

 

[SensibleKeks]

Wait... she was suing a bunch of guy's named John Doe too?! It can't be a coincidence!!

 

[Uncle Anthony Cumia]

Wait... she was suing a bunch of guy's named John Doe too?! It can't be a coincidence!!

No hers were Joe Doe. Lol

 

[based and white pilled]

No hers were Joe Doe. Lol

ayo so dey was called joe?

-Tyrone

 

[Uncle Floyd]

No hers were Joe Doe. Lol

Funny enough, Pat's known among the Robinsons as No Dough.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

Did she make sure to repeatedly engage with them via phone and go on any podcasts saying she’d kick all their asses and they all know it? That might be where she slipped up.

Quasi should get some “I got sued by Patrick S. Tomlinson and all I got was this lousy Mustang.” merch made up.