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c/news · by sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 117d

Judge Tosses Kash Patel's Defamation Lawsuit Against Frank Figliuzzi

https://deadline.com/2026/04/kash-patel-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed-msnbc-pundit-1236867581/

A defamation case launched by Patel got SLAPPed down, with the Judge calling Patel a mentally substandard idiot who cannot understand hyperbole.

So its now a part of US case law that Kash Patel is not "A person of reasonable intelligence and learning."

Normaly I'd copy paste the entire article but apparently that is now a dire matter of copyright law, so uh, editorializing!

If the full text of a non paywalled article is posted, and then also an editorial is appended by the poster, this probably counts as transformative content, and is thus fair use.

If the full text is posted and there is no clear commericial gain, its not monetizable, its again also probably fair use.

(Hrm...)

If hardly anyone reads the specific post of the copy pasted news article, in comparison to the number of people who actually go to the website, its probably fair use.

In conclusion: lemmy.world apparently thinks it is a very big and important player in the online world, and may or may not be monetizing our posts to it.

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23 Comments

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 117d (5 replies)

Is that 250 million lawsuit he just filed?

thunderfist@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 117d (3 replies)

This is a different defamation suit against Frank Figliuzzi on Morning Joe. The one he filed earlier this week was against the Atlantic. I imagine it will end similarly.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 117d

You beat me to it, yep.

Court cases move... well generally rather slowly, compared to the news cycle, the timing on this one is both mildly confusing and also extremely funny.

Almacca@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 117d (1 reply)

You'd think he wouldn't have time for all these lawsuits, what with all the drinking and nightclubbing.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 117d

But he gets a lot of rest passed out in his office.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 117d

lol yup

tomatolung@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 117d (4 replies)

The judge ruled that the MSNBC pundit was using hyperbole when he said Patel has "been visible at nightclubs" far more than at the FBI building.Kash Patel filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic, he has lost a different A day after FBI Director defamation claim, against news analyst and pundit Frank Figliuzzi.

U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr. dismissed Patel’s lawsuit against Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who has been an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

...

”Hanks wrote, “A person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken his statement literally: that Dir. Patel has actually spent more hours physically in a nightclub than he has spent physically in his office building. By saying that Patel spent ‘far more’ time at nightclubs than his office, Figliuzzi delivered his answer ‘in an exaggerated, provocative and amusing way,’ employing rhetorical hyperbole.”The judge wrote that because he found that the statement was “rhetorical hyperbole,” it cannot be considered defamation.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d (3 replies)

Figliuzzi: well damn... i won, but what do i do with these years worth of videos of him at the nightclub across the street instead of work now...

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 116d (2 replies)

... Train an Ai on them.

For uh, 'transformative content' purposes.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d (1 reply)

www.kashpatelnightclubsimulator.com

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 116d

I mean as far as I can tell thats an empty domain.

You know:

Free Real Estate.

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?domain=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kashpatelnightclubsimulator.com%2F

Yeah its not even registered, to anybody, doesn't look like it.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 117d (1 reply)

Poor patel, he'll be drinking heavily mourning his loss.

We should all do our part and send him bottles of the cheapest possible alcohol.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 116d

IMO he's been obviously hungover/drunk in a good deal of his recent public appearances.

Face is a bit puffier, but the muscles are actually a bit more relaxed, so he doesn't have his standard serial killer intensity stare as default.

... hooray me for having an alcoholic dad and thus being hyperaware of this kind of bullshittery.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 117d (1 reply)

Suck it, J Edgar Boozer!

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d

J Edgar Boozer

That's hilarious.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 117d (2 replies)

That's extremely interesting, OP, screenshots to reread later. Thanks for posting.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 117d (1 reply)

I can only hope you figure out a way to sell those screenshots as NFTs.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 117d

😂

A fool knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. This is not directed at you OP, just a general observation for general purposes, wrt general audiences.

frightful5680@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 117d

Tell Kashyap to shut his yap pack his bags and take Trump with him. New low for FBI

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 117d

Oh look, yet another fascist getting his ass handed to him in court.

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d

In conclusion: lemmy.world apparently thinks it is a very big and important player in the online world, and may or may not be monetizing our posts to it.

What? You must not understand that everything above this is about lemmy.world not wanting to get sued for hosting copyright content because a poster like yourself doesn't understand how things work.

Also your SLAPP wordplay is wrong:

The judge, though, ruled that Figliuzzi was unable to recover attorneys fees and costs under Texas’ anti-SLAPP law.

CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 117d

That was quick

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 117d

Fuck .world

http://archive.today/7yLcA