Judge tosses lawsuit over article tying lawyer to neo-Nazis
Posted Nov 13, 2019 03:21:40 PM.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A federal judge has thrown out a Baltimore lawyer’s lawsuit accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of defaming him in an article and a “hate map” that tied him to a neo-Nazi group.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects the law centre’s publications about attorney Glen K. Allen in 2016. Blake said Allen didn’t dispute the law centre article’s “underlying factual assertions” about his history of supporting the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group.
Allen sued the law centre and two of its former employees last December. He claimed the publications ruined his reputation and cost him his job as an independent contractor at the City of Baltimore Law Department.
Allen said he plans to appeal the judge’s ruling.
Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press
