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A Washington, D.C. district Judge Tuesday reduced the punitive damages award granted to celebrity climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann in a defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg, an analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and National Review blogger Mark Steyn. In February 2024, a D.C. jury had awarded Mann a single dollar in compensatory damages from Steyn but added $1 million in punitive damages. Judge Alfred Irving lowered the amount to $5,000. More
excellent!
Dr. Michael Mann: Hey, I get $5,000 for lying. If I tell a lie every day, I’ll get rich quick. After I make $10,000,000 I can retire and stop telling lies about the climate warming crap. I always knew there was an angle in the whole climate thing that I could exploit.
Mann: Lets see: 10,000,000 / (5000×30) = 66.67 months, or 5.6 years. Yee Hah!
He’ll use it all up on FAST FOOD within a month.
^^^^ Are you thinking of Michael Moore?^^^^
Hide the decline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqc7PCJ-nc
DC Jury. Nuf said.
Steyn would have easily won in a fair court.
This is a sad example of our flawed legal system. The plaintiff will see no repercussions for filing such a ridiculous claim and the defendant spends a fortune fighting it. If successful, the defendant is still out of a ton of money spent on lawyers.
In the end, the lawyers ALWAYS get richer.
The system should be adjusted so the defendant should get all legal costs paid by the plaintiff if the plaintiff loses. Then the “legal” industry would shrivel up and die.
Take your hockey stick and shove it up your ass.