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I couldn't find much on the court website. They don't have the documents there so I'm relying on the article itself.
[URL]https://courts.ingham.org/CourtRecordSearch/ROALookup.do?ele=1[/URL]
Case:
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I couldn't find much on the court website. They don't have the documents there so I'm relying on the article itself.
[URL]https://courts.ingham.org/CourtRecordSearch/ROALookup.do?ele=1[/URL]
Case:
21-000539-CB |
A defamation lawsuit against East Lansing Info (ELi) and its founder Alice Dreger brought by real estate developer Scott Chappelle was summarily dismissed by Judge Joyce Draganchuk of Ingham County’s 30th Circuit Court today.
“There was never any doubt that ELI’s reporting was well-sourced and a fair report of public records,” Wassom continued. “But in an environment where basic principles of free speech and the liberty of the press are under constant attack, it is profoundly gratifying when a court issues such a full-throated and well-reasoned endorsement of First Amendment values as this court did today.”
Chappelle’s lawyer arguing the motion on Wednesday, Daniel Powell of Minc Law, was particularly animated during arguments for why the case should continue, but avoided matters of fact. He claimed that “the truth would come out” if the case continued and the discovery process could take place and intimated that the work ELi and Dreger did (and does) was not in a journalistic capacity.
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