No reasonable jury could find’ that Rachel Maddow engaged in ‘constitutionally-defined actual malice,’ a federal judge ruled

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan ruled on Friday that no reasonable jury could find Maddow demonstrated actual malice toward Nunes in March 2021 when discussing a pac

A federal judge has dismissed former Republican California U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes’s defamation lawsuit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and NBCUniversal, ruling the network did not act with “actual malice” in reporting that Nunes refused to turn over a package from a sanctioned Russian agent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A federal judge says Comcast and NBC Universal would likely prevail on First Amendment grounds if the case went to a jury trial as demanded.