{"id":66318,"date":"2016-06-13T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66318"},"modified":"2016-06-13T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:45:57","slug":"scruff-face-loses-on-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66318","title":{"rendered":"Scruff Face loses on appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jesse<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Richard and Chip send us links to the latest chapter to the “Scruff Face” story. An appeals court has tossed out the $1.8 million judgement in the case of Chris Kyle and Jimmy Janos AKA Jesse Ventura. Kyle claimed in his book that he had knocked out Janos in a bar fight after Janos was disrespectful towards a fallen SEAL.<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald<\/a> explains;<\/p>\n

A key issue in the appeal was whether Kyle acted with “actual malice,” a demanding legal standard laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Times v. Sullivan case in 1964. It means a plaintiff who’s a public figure must prove that a defendant knew that the statement in question was false or made it with reckless disregard for whether it was false. Kyle’s estate argued that the judge gave the jury faulty instructions on that point.<\/p>\n

A separate issue was the $1.3 million award for unjust enrichment. Ventura’s attorneys argued that “American Sniper” shot to the top of the best-seller lists only because Kyle’s statements about Ventura thrust him into the national spotlight. The Kyle estate argued that no other court had awarded damages for unjust enrichment for allegedly defamatory speech.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The majority of the three-judge 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel says that portion of the entire case fails as a matter of law.<\/p>\n

The majority also vacated the defamation award, but sent that portion of the case back to court for a new trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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