Radio host (Savage) drops lawsuit against Islamic group

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Conservative talk show host Michael Savage has changed his mind and is reluctantly dropping his lawsuit against an Islamic rights group that launched an advertisers' boycott after he attacked Islam and the Quran on the air, his lawyer said today.

A San Francisco federal judge threw out Savage's earlier copyright and racketeering suit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations last month but gave him a chance to file an amended suit by Friday. In an unusual court filing, attorney Daniel Horowitz, who had earlier promised a new suit that would pass legal muster, said today that Savage has a legitimate case but has decided not to pursue it.

... Later Horowitz said he feared his client would be in danger if he continued the case. The attorney said he has no evidence that CAIR commits violent acts but alleged that the Islamic group is out to silence Savage and conducts campaigns that may stir up violence by others.

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for CAIR, said Savage was "cutting his losses" by dropping the suit.

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[rurallib]

1. Says Weiner lost $1mill in advertising - isn't this also the one

where he was appealing to his 'audience' to pay his lawyer fees and they only ponied up about a thousand bucks?

[maseman]

2. What a WEINER

[Swagman]

3. another one who can dish it out-but can't take it

[Truth4Justice]

4. Savage is all mouth, no guts.

[Judi Lynn]

5. His audience, to whom he's been pitching his appeals for financial assistance for his legal expenses

probably doesn't have a lot left over to send him after paying their hospital and other medical bills incurred due to their snake-handling church services.

[sofa king]

6. Ohh, snap!

I'm in love with you, Judi Lynn.