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Corrupt Obama-appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson tossed out a lawsuit that accused the far left Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] of attempting to financially destroy the Center for Immigration Studies by labeling it a “hate group.”
The SPLC, a true hate group, targets conservative groups for ruin and puts them in danger with its ‘hit list’ by designating people and groups with its ‘hate group’ labels.
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The Center for Immigration Studies accused the SPLC’s leaders of conspiring to violate RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] when they labeled them a hate group.
The SPLC asked Judge Jackson to hit the Center for Immigration studies with monetary sanctions, but she declined.
The Washington Times reported:
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused leaders of the Southern Poverty Law Center of trying to financially destroy one of the organizations that it has labeled as a hate group.
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The Center for Immigration Studies’ lawsuit is devoid of any allegation that the law center made a false statement about the Washington-based nonprofit, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., said in her ruling Friday.
“The upshot of the complaint is that defendants advanced a conclusion that was debatable, and that this expression of a flawed opinion harmed plaintiff’s reputation,” Jackson wrote.
The research group accused the Montgomery, Alabama-based law center’s leaders of conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act when they designated it as a hate group in 2016. The judge, however, said the suit improperly attempts to “shoehorn” a defamation claim into the framework of a RICO case.
According to the Washington Times, Mark Krikorian, the Center for Immigration Studies’ executive director said in an email he hasn’t decided whether his group will appeal.
In a previous ruling, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the SPLC was protected under the First Amendment in their use of ‘hate group’ labels.
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In June of 2018, the SPLC was forced to apologize and pay a $3.4 million settlement out of court to Quilliam, a London-based group, after labeling them as anti-Muslim extremists.
