A federal appeals court said Devin Nunes, the former California congressman and an ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, cannot revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN over reports he was involved in efforts to uncover damaging Ukraine-related information about Joe Biden.
Highlights
- A federal appeals court said Devin Nunes cannot revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN.
- The 2nd U.S.
- Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Nunes failed to seek a correction fast enough, or show he deserved “special damages” for economic loss.
- Nunes sued over a Nov.
- 22, 2019 article that said Lev Parnas, a then-indicted associate of former Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, was willing to testify before Congress that Nunes met in 2018 with a former Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss “digging up dirt” on Joe Biden.
- Nunes left Congress in December to become chief executive of the social media venture Trump Media & Technology Group.