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June 07, 2017

Media on Trial, For Real: ABCNews Could Face $5.7 Billion Damage Claim in Defamation Case Revolving Around "Pink Slime" Claims

$5.7 Billion.

A judge has dismissed their motion to dismiss (on First Amendment grounds) and the case now goes to a live jury. A live South Dakota jury.

The potential loss is so vast that Disney has listed this case, and no others, in a shareholder report noting possible liabilities.

I wish them luck with a capital "F."


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