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TexasTowelie

(112,128 posts)
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 08:26 AM Nov 2018

Judge scraps part of suit filed by NRA, over emails received after Parkland shootings

TALLAHASSEE -- Though he described disputed emails as “disgusting,” a federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit in which the National Rifle Association’s Florida lobbyist alleged she received harassing and threatening emails after the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County.

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle dismissed NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer’s claims against California attorney Lawrence Sorensen, who sent two emails to Hammer that included photos showing injuries from gunshot wounds. Hammer filed a lawsuit in July against Sorensen and three other unrelated men because of emails she received — with Hinkle’s dismissal limited to Sorensen.

In the ruling, Hinkle wrote that Sorensen sending the emails “unsolicited to anyone, even a public figure who advocates gun rights, was inappropriate, indeed disgusting.”

But the judge said Sorensen did not threaten Hammer and that the emails are protected by the First Amendment.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article221922045.html

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Judge scraps part of suit filed by NRA, over emails received after Parkland shootings (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
Heavens no, don't make them see what they are responsible for... HopeAgain Nov 2018 #1
Part of the suit was dismissed. What still remains to be decided? 3Hotdogs Nov 2018 #2
It was only dismissed against one of the defendants. TexasTowelie Nov 2018 #3
I agree with the judge. We should have the right to use gun shot sinkingfeeling Nov 2018 #4

sinkingfeeling

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4. I agree with the judge. We should have the right to use gun shot
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 09:42 AM
Nov 2018

photos as long as "pro-life" organizations use their super enlarged ones of aborted fetuses.

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