In another interesting example of defamation law,
Jesse Ventura won a defamation lawsuit against the estate of Chris Kyle, in a
case regarding a passage in Kyle’s book “American Sniper”. The Dallas Morning News has a detailed story
here.
Ventura appeared on CNN Saturday morning to discuss
the case. He said the award will be
covered by insurance and won’t cost the Kyle family anything.
The case involved a claim in the book that Kyle
punched a man falsely identified as Ventura in a bar., when the man said the
Navy Seals “deserve to lose a few”.
Ventura maintains that the book falsely profited from
misusing his name and reputation. But
Ventura, as a public figure, had a high bar to pass to win the case. (See details in another case discussed Aug. 1.)
I met Jesse Ventura in person at an HRC dinner in
Minneapolis in late September 2001, after 9/11.
I remember a conversation with him, that “it is safe to fly”.
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