Former US Representative Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) couldn’t make a case that Hearst Magazine Media Inc. and a writer for Esquire Magazine defamed him in an article about an Iowa farm owned by his family.
Nunes alleged that the article conveyed a “defamatory gist and false implication” that he conspired with others, including his family and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), to conceal a “politically explosive secret"—that NuStar Farms LLC knowingly employs undocumented labor.
Nunes’ defamation-by-implication claim failed because there was no showing that Hearst or reporter Ryan Lizza intended to convey a defamatory statement, Judge C.J. Williams of the US District ...
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