UPDATE: A federal appeals court holds that there was no libel.
8th.Cir.: HuffPo Smearing of Candidate Not Libel, Says Court
Lawyers.com
A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the Huffington Post of libeling a former U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota by calling him an arsonist in a story headline.
http://blogs.lawyers.com/2013/06/huffpo-smearing-of-senate-candidate-not-libel-court-says/
Opinion:
http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/13/06/124036U.pdf
Shepard v. The Huffington Post (June 2012)
STATUS:
District Court dismissed the claims with prejudice after finding that it was barred by the statute of limitations.
D.Minn.: HuffPo Cleared for IDing Candidate as Arsonist
Courthouse News
A former Congressional candidate waited too long to sue the Huffington Post over an article that labels him an "arsonist", a federal judge.
Order: Shepard v. The Huffington Post
https://www.courthousenews.com/2012/11/27/huffpo.pdf
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