Legal Opinion
Wheeler v. Twenty-First Century Fox
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided August 2, 2018No. 17 Civ. 5807 (GBD)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE B. DANIELS, United States District Judge *449Plaintiff Rod Wheeler brings this action asserting claims for defamation per se and, in the alternative, defamation and libel per quod , against Defendant Fox News Network LLC ("Fox News"), its parent company, Defendant Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. ("21st Century Fox" and, with Fox News, "Fox"), Fox News investigative journalist Defendant Malia Zimmerman (with Fox, "the Fox Defendants"), and Fox News contributor Defendant Ed Butowsky. (See Am. Compl., ECF No. 56,) Plaintiff's allegations principally arise out of Fox News's coverage of his…
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