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Court Dumps Zimmerman’s CBS Defamation Suit

A Florida court dismissed a lawsuit brought by George Zimmerman alleging that NBC News defamed him in its editing of a story about the shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. So reports CBS News.

 

Zimmerman’s suit claimed the network made it sound as if Zimmerman voluntarily told an operator that Martin was black, when—in actuality—Zimmerman identified Martin’s race in response to a question. The court held that Zimmerman failed to prove that the network had acted with malice, the standard that applies to public figures in defamation cases.

 

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