Appeals Court: It’s “Objectively True” That Devin Nunes’ IA Family Farm Knowingly Hired Undocumented Workers

Law & Crime reports:

A federal appeals court in Iowa handed Devin Nunes another loss in his defamation suit against journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines over a 2018 Esquire article that said the Nunes family’s dairy farm knowingly employed undocumented immigrants after a lower court judge determined that the story was “substantially, objectively true.”

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday affirmed the lower court’s ruling which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, reasoning that the former Republican congressman-turned-Truth Social CEO and his family’s dairy farm failed to provide any evidence that the article caused monetary damage.

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Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes suffers another loss in defamation suit after judge found it ‘substantially and objectively true’ that his family farm employed undocumented immigrants https://t.co/gPIdZR0ysw

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