NY Supreme Court Sides With Project Ferret Ass, Allows Group To Depose The New York Times

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The New York Supreme Court sided with Project Veritas in a ruling Thursday, meaning the organization will be allowed to depose the New York Times.

The New York Times was sued last November over their coverage of a Veritas video that alleged people connected to Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar were involved in illegal ballot harvesting. The lawsuit pertained to two stories in the Times, one by Maggie Astor and another by Tiffany Hsu, that characterized Veritas’ video as “deceptive” and said it was likely part of a “coordinated disinformation campaign,” The Hill reported.

The court dismissed the Times’ initial motion to dismiss the case, a decision that the paper appealed. The Times asked the court to issue a stay to prevent Project Veritas from deposing the Times until the appeal was resolved, which could take years.

“Here, having failed to convince the Court that [Project Veritas’] case should be dismissed, [The New York Times] also failed to demonstrate the extraordinary justification required for the imposition of the drastic remedy of a stay pending appeal,” the court said in their opinion, which was posted on Project Veritas’ Instagram account.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ny-supreme-court-sides-with-project-veritas-allows-group-to-depose-the-new-york-times/ar-AANfYpU

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Interesting. Well, it doesn't mean the NYT will lose the case itself (nt)

[empedocles]

2. Not the highest court in NY

New York Supreme Court
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction, although in many counties outside New York City it acts primarily as a court of civil jurisdiction, with most criminal matters handled in County Court.[1]

The court is radically different from its counterparts in nearly all other states in that the Supreme Court is a trial court and is not the highest court in the state. The highest court of the State of New York is the Court of Appeals. Also, although it is a trial court, the Supreme Court sits as a "single great tribunal of general state-wide jurisdiction, rather than an aggregation of separate courts sitting in the several counties or judicial districts of the state."[2] The Supreme Court is established in each of New York's 62 counties.[1]'

[TheRealNorth]

3. Doesn't discovery/depositions go both ways?

Meaning Project Veritas would be open to closer scrutiny by the NYT lawyers?

[lagomorph777]

5. Why, yes, yes it does.

The unedited video of those hatchet jobs would be an amusing place to start.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. Yep. I hope the NYT drags them through all the 7 hour depos they can

come up with. Of course the NYT will have to shell out more money to the lawyers to do all this. I suppose it was something they hoped to aviod.

[TheRealNorth]

9. True

But they can probably turn it into a story.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Would be nice to see a counter-suit by NYTimes.

[stillcool]

8. they sure do love their lawsuits

frivolous snowflakes.

[edhopper]

10. Asking to dismiss is always the first thing to try

Doesn't mean anything for the final results of the case.