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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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An $11 Million Mistake Print
Wednesday, October 06 2010

Sarah Jones, a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and school teacher by day, filed a complaint late last year regarding an article published on TheDirty.com that included a quote from a commenter who alleged that Jones had slept with all the members of the Bengals team and had sexually transmitted diseases.  Jones, claiming that her school and some of her students read the comment, sued California-based Dirty World Entertainment Recordings LLC, which owns TheDirt.com for defamation, libel and invasion of privacy.
 
When the company failed to respond, the judge ordered Dirty World Entertainment Recordings to pay $11 million in a default judgment.  The award to Jones, however, was short-lived.
 
According to news reports, it turns out Jones's attorney sued the wrong company.  Instead of suing Hooman “Nik Ritchie” Karamian and TheDirty.com, the lawsuit instead targeted TheDirt.com and Dirty World Entertainment Recordings.  A simple, yet costly mistake.
 
Jones's lawyer Eric Deters recently filed an amended complaint. TheDirty.com has since taken down the original post. Jones and Deters hope to learn the name of the individual who sent the photo and information.  “You don’t get to hide behind fake names for slander and libel,” said Deter. 
 
—Source:  Forbes.com

Notable Quote   
 
"Americans do not trust several major U.S. institutions, including the national news media.The recently released Center Square Voters' Voice poll found that 43% of Americans say the media is trustworthy, compared with 54% who said it is not trustworthy.Younger people were more likely to trust the media, with 47% of those ages 18-34 saying they trust it and 46% saying the opposite.The numbers steadily…[more]
 
 
— Casey Harper, The Center Square
 
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