Frivolous defamation suit dismissed

You can't make this stuff up, people.

Last year, some right-wing nobody in Minnesota posted a clip on YouTube defaming Barack Obama.

But when people dared to criticize this video, this individual filed a defamation suit against these critics. He even tried to force Democratic Underground to disclose the identity of one of its users.

After tying up the courts for a year, I can tell you where that case went: nowhere. A federal judge has now dismissed the suit.

It was more or less a SLAPP suit: It was designed to bully critics by making them spend money defending themselves in court. Winning the suit probably wasn't even the plaintiff's goal.

So everyone's happy now, I guess.

(Source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3733619&mesg_id=3733619)