A federal judge in New York has denied Bill O'Reilly's motion to seal settlement agreements he struck with multiple women who accused him of harassment, dealing a huge blow to the former Fox News host in a defamation suit brought last year.
Deborah Batts, the judge presiding over the defamation suit, ruled Tuesday that O'Reilly "has failed to present compelling countervailing factors that could overcome the presumption of public access" to the agreements.
Batts also said O'Reilly "has not even come close to rebutting this First Amendment presumption" that favors public access to documents.
"Defendant O'Reilly asks the Court to resolve a dispute by relying on the very Agreements he seeks to shield from public view," Batts wrote.
The judge's ruling means that certain terms of the settlements are coming to light for the first time. On Wednesday, Neil Mullin and Nancy Erika Smith, the attorneys representing the three plaintiffs, introduced to the court settlement agreements between O'Reilly and women who had sued and settled with him. The agreement struck with Andrea Mackris, a former Fox News producer who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against O'Reilly in 2004, required all parties in the case to disclaim any of the evidence "as counterfeit or forgeries" should it be made public.
As Smith and Mullin put it in a separate filing on Wednesday, the provision required Mackris to "lie -- even in legal proceedings or under oath -- if any evidence becomes public, by calling evidence 'counterfeit' or 'forgeries.'"
A former Fox New host had a legal settlement written up that forces a former co-worker to lie about factual information if it becomes public?
Let's chalk that up to the least surprising news of the day.
Man I used to love to hate on Bill O'Reilly back when he actually mattered. (Might have something to do with the fact that he attacked me on national television.)
But now that he is a fucking nobody, I just enjoy watching him sink slowly into oblivion.
So Faux News lawyers made an NDA which REQUIRES the parties to swear to perjure themselves??? Why am I not surprised?
ReplyDeleteAnd since that is illegal it means the NDA's are useless :)
DeleteOh, goody! This should make some delicious articles in the Guardian or the Daily Mail.
DeleteI am surprised that he hasn't been offered a job in the WH, they need more liars working to clean up little donnie's messes.
ReplyDeleteGive them time, 5:42. Give them time.
DeleteHe seems like he would have a tiny penis.
ReplyDelete'Shut Up & Sing:
ReplyDeleteHow Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America'
C&L>"a regular commentator on Fox is Michelle Malkin, who was the key smear merchant attacking Graeme Frost, a twelve-year-old defender of the S-CHIP children's health program in 2007?
If you hire a lot of bomb-throwers, don't act shocked when bombs are thrown.
That's the same lesson The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg has learned, now that he' realizes Kevin Williamson wasn't kidding when he called for the hanging of women who had abortions."
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2018/04/media-gatekeepers-see-no-evil.html
So now the "fucker" is officially the " fuckee "
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OT: Backpage...
ReplyDelete"backpage.com and affiliated websites have been seized as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, with analytical assistance from the Joint Regional Intelligence Center.
Other agencies participating in and supporting the enforcement action include the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona, the U.S. Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, the office of the California Attorney General, and the office of the Texas Attorney General."
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29148/breaking-fbi-seizes-website-linked-sex-crimes-ryan-saavedra
"The defamation suit has three named plaintiffs: Andrea Mackris, a former Fox News producer, who filed a sexual harassment suit against O’Reilly in 2004; Rebecca Gomez Diamond, a former host on Fox Business Network, who accused O’Reilly of sexual harassment before settling with him in 2011; and Rachel Witlieb Bernstein, a former Fox News employee who settled with O’Reilly in 2002"
ReplyDeletehttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/the-depressing-secret-at-the-center-of-the-oreilly-and-trump-settlement-agreements.html