{"id":69745,"date":"2017-01-10T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69745"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T20:22:36","slug":"clock-boys-lawsuit-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69745","title":{"rendered":"Clock Boy&#8217;s lawsuit dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ahmed-mohamed-clock-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ahmed-mohamed-clock-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ahmed-mohamed-clock-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ahmed-mohamed-clock.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You might remember that Mohammed Mohammed, the father of Ahmed, known as the \u201cClock Boy,\u201d filed a lawsuit against the Center for Security Policy because of comments made by Jim &#8220;Uncle Jimbo&#8221; Hansen that made note of the &#8220;clock&#8217;s&#8221; resemblance to a bomb. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/2017\/01\/10\/center-victorious-in-clockboy-lawsuit-aimed-at-suppressing-free-speech-defeating-sharia-supremacism\/\">Center for Security Policy<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fortunately, a Texas statute prohibits Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), thereby protecting free speech and citizens\u2019 right to speak their minds without having to defend themselves in court.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning that, as recommended by the Center\u2019s counsel, the American Freedom Law Center, District Court Judge Maricela Moore had dismissed the suit, Jim Hanson observed:<\/p>\n<p>This ruling reaffirms our most fundamental liberty \u2013 the right to free expression \u2013 and punishes Mr. Mohammed and his allies for attempting to suppress ideas they oppose.  The Center for Security Policy will continue to stand firm against all attempts by individuals and groups like CAIR that seek through lawfare and other means to prohibit any criticism of totalitarian Islamist doctrine and to brand as Islamophobes those who point out their efforts. Shutting down free speech is anti-constitutional and un-American.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org\/press-release\/court-clock-boys-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed-aflc-lawyers-ask-court-to-award-sanctions\/\">American Freedom Law Center<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the lengthy hearing, Judge Moore pressed Mohamed\u2019s lawyer, Fort Worth attorney Susan Hutchison, to provide any facts that would suggest that Hanson and the other defendants had said anything false or defamatory about Mohamed or his son during the television broadcasts. <\/p>\n<p> After spending a painfully embarrassing 15 minutes flipping through reams of paper, Mohamed\u2019s lawyer was unable to provide any such evidence.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge Moore took the matter under advisement but informed the parties that she would rule by the end of the day.  Today, the Court published Judge Moore\u2019s ruling dismissing the lawsuit against Hanson and CSP with prejudice.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember that Mohammed Mohammed, the father of Ahmed, known as the \u201cClock Boy,\u201d filed &hellip; <a title=\"Clock Boy&#8217;s lawsuit dismissed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69745\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clock Boy&#8217;s lawsuit dismissed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}