CNN Gets Texas Doctor’s Defamation Suit Over Covid-19 Care Moved

A Texas doctor, who’s part of a physicians’ group that promotes using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, brought her defamation suit against Cable News Network Inc. in the wrong federal district, a federal judge said.

But rather than dismiss Stella Immanuel’s suit, Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas transferred it to the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Any alleged damage to Immanuel’s reputation would have occurred in the Houston area where she practiced, not the eastern-most part of the state, Mazzant said.

Immanuel belongs to America’s Frontline ...