The star of “Judge Judy” failed to convince a federal court that the companies who own and operate the National Enquirer and In Touch Weekly should be held liable for articles accusing her of appearing in a true-crime docuseries about Lyle and Erik Menendez—“the notorious brothers convicted of murdering their parents.”
Judy Sheindlin didn’t meet the First Amendment’s “demanding standard” in pleading A360 Media LLC and Accelerate360 LLC “acted with actual malice” when its reporter misidentified her in the docuseries, the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida said in a Thursday ...
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