Fridman v. Bean LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA §§ § in § D MIKHAIL FRIDMAN, PETR AVEN, ) MH § § 3 and GERMAN KHAN ) “ W~* ) Clari<, U.S, Disi:r§st & §Ban§<.'uptcy Plaintiffs, ) owns m ?NS D§strict at Co!u:'nb;'a ) v. ) Civil Case No. 17-2041 (RJL) ) BEAN LLC (a/k/a FUSION GPS) and ) GLENN SIMPSON ) ) Defendants. ) MEMoRANDUM oPINIoN (January l_lA, 2019) [Dkt. ## 19, 20] This is a defamation action for monetary damages brought by three Russian businessmen_Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan (“plaintiffs”)_against political opposition research firm Fusion GPS and its…