Rep. Maxine Waters (D) must face a revived defamation claim and was ordered Wednesday to pay attorneys’ fees to her opponent in the 2020 campaign for her Southern California congressional district.
The California Court of Appeal, Second District, held the trial judge got it wrong when it dismissed Joe E. Collins III’s lawsuit after Waters accused him of being dishonorably discharged from the Navy.
Collins showed Waters a document indicating that he was honorably discharged. “There was nothing suspicious about its appearance. The document, if genuine, would have established without doubt that Waters’s charge was false. Waters easily could have ...
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