Federal judge throws out Rudy Giuliani's defamation suit against Joe Biden for calling him a 'Russian pawn'
Source: Law & Crime
Sep 16th, 2024, 10:39 am
Because Rudy Giuliani “utterly failed” to establish personal jurisdiction in his New Hampshire defamation lawsuit against President Joe Biden, a federal judge last Friday threw out the case. In October 2023, before he was himself found liable for defaming 2020 Georgia election workers and slapped with a $148 million judgment, Giuliani held a press conference and announced his plans to sue Biden for referring to him as a “Russian pawn” during a 2020 debate with Donald Trump in Nashville, Tenn.
Giuliani claimed that he was falsely branded as “a Russian pawn” and a “facilitator of Russian disinformation,” damaging his law practice and consulting business (he has since been disbarred in New York and, after the $148 million judgment, he filed for bankruptcy). “His own national security adviser told him that what is happening with his buddy — I shouldn’t — actually, I will,” Biden said in October 2020, in response Giuliani’s claims about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and foreign corruption.
“His buddy Rudy Giuliani. He’s being used as a Russian pawn. He’s being fed information that is Russian — that is not true.” Giuliani said publicly that Biden calling him a “Russian operative” is “what’s called libel, defamation per se.” Though he followed through on the threat to sue, the case didn’t go anywhere as Giuliani was embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings that have since been dismissed.
During the bankruptcy, civil lawsuits against Giuliani were automatically paused, a fact that worked against him as he tried to launch an appeal of the $148 million judgment. But Giuliani’s lawsuit against Biden was not automatically stayed, so his non-response in the suit he filed has also come back to haunt him.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/rudy-giuliani-defamation-lawsuit-against-joe-biden-dismissed/
Full headline: ‘Utterly failed’: Federal judge throws out Rudy Giuliani’s defamation suit against Joe Biden for calling him a ‘Russian pawn’ during Trump debate
Link to dismissal ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.62613/gov.uscourts.nhd.62613.18.0.pdf
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