Legal Opinion
Montgomery v. Risen
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 17, 2017No. 16-7096PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PILLARD, Circuit Judge.Software developer Dennis Montgomery appeals from summary judgment in his defamation action. Montgomery claimed that author James Risen, together with publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (collectively, Defendants or Risen), made false and damaging statements about Montgomery in the book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (2014). A chapter of the book focuses on software that Montgomery pitched to the United States as a counter-terrorism tool, but that ultimately was widely seen as' a “hoax.” Id. at 33.…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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