Court says suit testing blogger's rights can go on

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: AP

A federal appeals court says former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod can continue her defamation case against a conservative blogger.

Larry O'Connor asked a federal court of appeals to throw out the case, saying it violates his freedom of speech rights. The appeals court Tuesday upheld a federal district court's rejection of that motion to dismiss. O'Connor is a colleague of the late blogger Andrew Breitbart.

Sherrod was ousted from her job as a rural development official in 2010 after Breitbart posted an edited video of Sherrod, who is black, supposedly making racist remarks. She sued Breitbart, O'Connor and an unnamed defendant for defamation and emotional distress. Breitbart died unexpectedly last year.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/court-says-suit-testing-bloggers-rights-can-go

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Go Shirley!!

[midnight]

2. When editing the truth leads to the destruction of a person to work, their is no other solution....

[PoliticAverse]

3. You don't have a freedom to libel/defame. n/t

[mtasselin]

4. truth

The first amendment does not give one the right to lie, distort, omit what ever they want, pretty much gets rid of fox news network.

[forestpath]

5. I hope she cleans him out! But the way she was treated by the Obama administration

was shameful beyond belief and is the perfect illustration of how eager it is to always appease Republicans.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Yeah, all they had to do was say "we'll look into this before passing judgement"

and the complete video would have shown Sherrod was speaking admirably. Instead, they took the wingnuts' word for it that she said something bad, and panicked.

[alp227]

7. But what if this gets appealed to the supreme court?

Would the conservative majority dump this suit?