Nunes v. “Defendant, Devin Nunes’ Mom”pic.twitter.com/LCWFFUmWXi
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This is amazing. Maybe not meritorious. But amazing.
For those who’ve asked, @big_cases can’t follow cases in state court. (Or in E.D. Va., which might be where this is headed.)
Honestly, this complaint reads like a parody. And as of this afternoon, it wasn't in the public docket for the circuit court in Henrico County. But @FoxNews, which posted the document, talked to his lawyer .....
"Like Devin Nunes' Mom, Devin Nunes' cow engaged in a vicious defamation campaign against Nunes."pic.twitter.com/IWp4jLwYS0
Nunes thinks various dairy puns were defamatory. So perhaps we'll get some interesting case law about how literally a reasonable reader would construe tweets from an account purporting to belong to a cow.pic.twitter.com/AIx6OZHFjU
Rep. Nunes' complaint - for which he's seeking $250 million - seems to be that because of mean people on Twitter, he wasn't re-elected as overwhelmingly as he had been in the past. (He was still re-elected though.)pic.twitter.com/xNhEvUlPhs
Nunes wants to know who's behind the twitter accounts purporting to be his mom and his cow, because "the corruption of American Democracy and society by intentional falsehoods, fraud and defamation must stop."pic.twitter.com/O7xxauAcf0
If you need more reason to think this might not be a meritorious lawsuit, consider the many fine points in this thread from @gabrielmalor ->https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1107781684244692992 …
And here's the complaint, which has to be seen to be believed.https://www.scribd.com/document/402297422/Nunes-Complaint-3-18-19 …
To recap: Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, is suing Twitter because a fake cow was mean to him on the internet. (He's also suing the fake cow.)
Update: It's real. From the docket of the circuit court in Henrico County:pic.twitter.com/hB0ciNueUG
Further update: The congressman's lawsuit against mean Twitter accounts has produced some unintended consequences.pic.twitter.com/WSk4xPHW80
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