32 media companies support Chris Kyle estate
According to Variety, 32 media companies, including A&E Television Networks, Buzzfeed, Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Gannett Media, Gawker, Hachette, Hearst Corp., the New York Times Co. and Time Inc., plan to file an amicus brief in support of Taya Kyle in her appeal of the libel suit won by Jimmy Janos a few months ago.
“An award of profits has nothing to do with the harm suffered by the plaintiff; it is punishment, plain and simple,” Abrams wrote in the brief. “And given the lack of proportion between the offending passage and the book as a whole, in this case it is clear that includes punishment of wholly protected speech.”
He also noted that the state of Minnesota, where the trial was held, views an award of profits as punitive. Yet no punitive damage claim was submitted to the jury, and “none could have been because punitive damages are not permitted against an estate.”
“Yet under the guise of an unjust enrichment claim, they were effectively and improperly awarded here,” he wrote.
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In a statement, the MPAA said that the amicus brief “aims to insure that the law of defamation does not impinge on First Amendment rights” and “is just another example of our industry’s longstanding commitment to the protection of free speech rights of all creators and storytellers.”
Suing widows shouldn’t be profitable.
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I don’t see what good this will do. If Kyle admitted on tape that he hit Janos, and Janos sued and won, I think any further legal manuevering is just more money and time and grief for the Kyle family.
I still think Janos is a turd, however.
That’s offensive to turds.
Janos is a dried cumstained dingleberry that lives in Psuls sweaty spandex.
I was trying to keep it semi-clean. I don’t want to say anything to cause Jonn to moderate my comments. With Janos, my filter gets damn thin.
It can’t be libel if it really happened. And it really did happen. If anything, Chief Kyle downplayed the full extent of Janos’s shitbaggery that night.
But Janos-Who-Never-Was-A-SEAL is a loathesome piece of shit who created a bullshit image about himself, and then cries about it when people see right through that image.
Shipley said he was, and who am I to argue with the hair?
I don’t like Janos- never has. His politics are strange, he is even stranger, and his acting was bad. He should have dropped his suit when Kyle died and pursued some other path to clear the record.
However, the lawsuit established that the punch never happened. Unfortunately, Kyle had some flaws, and this story was reflective of that.
I don’t mind attacking Janos for his many other flaws, and I don’t mind overlooking Kyles flaws in light of his service and heroism, but I do mind perpetuating the false stories.
Janos should be made to contemplate his asshatery on the “Tree of Woe” and then banished to the “Land of a 1,000 Phildos” where the air smells like ass, the trees look like taint and the shy drizzles mansauce.
There he should have to dwell, until All-Points Logistics needs a new CEO.
I held speaking out on this clown for a long time thinking that maybe he would see the light, but the last several years he has sunk to new lows.
Fuck him.
Not one of these corps gives a rat’s ass about Mrs. Kyle. However, they each have a vested interest in supporting her appeal. And fight they will, without a cent being spent by Mrs. Kyle for the legal beagles that just may provide the winning legal basis and argument. That’s cool. I like to think of it as 32 tag-team wrestlers, all opposing Jimmy J. There’s a certain poetic justice in that.
You said exactly what I was going to say.
They really do have their own interests to protect, so it is less about her than it is about them.
Even so, I’m glad to know that this is being done in a way that confronts janos for what he is – a greedy jerk with a bad temper and empty pockets.
Janos made the claim it was never about the money it was always about clearing his name.
If he was taking money he’s obviously a liar, liars shouldn’t win. I suspect this will take a nice long time to work its way through the courts…and all the time Janos in the news as the douche who sued a dead guy.
It’s going to take a lot of scrubbing bubbles to clear this asshole’s name…
The reality is the dirty name of Jesse Ventura was long ago tarnished beyond repair.
I can’t imagine that anyone took an assclown sports figure from a sport so fake it can’t even be called a sport to have any integrity or honor in his name. I am further amazed that an entire state thought said assclown should be their governor.
And since leaving office the very same assclown has done nothing but dishonor his own name with his absurd TV show about conspiracy and his own idiotic comments.
Whether Kyle’s story is false or true to me is irrelevant with respect to damaging the reputation of Janos/Ventura as Janos/Ventura had already done everything he could to ruin his own good name.
Once the determination was made the the story might be false how anyone thought this dishonorable buffoon had been damaged monetarily is beyond me.
VOV, it should be pointed out that it was a 3 way race with Janus, Hubert Humphrey III and Norm Coleman. You make that a 2 way race with Janos and either one of those guys and we wouldn’t have been saddled with that douche.
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Keep hoping that some court somewhere will react to the simplicity of this entire thing with banishment of Jimmy, to include a court order that if he ever attempts to file another lawsuit he will be imprisoned for life with a gag to keeps him from causing damage to other prisoners ears.
What should happen is no further legal action, no further harassment of the Kyle estate, and this Janos clown sent across the US border with his citizenship revoked.
What an idiot. No class, no honor, no nothing to respect in any way. Sad thing is that it’s all self-imposed.
I understand the city of Ventura, CA, is renaming itself “Douchebaggistan” as it’s a more honorable name then continuing to be (even remotely) associated with Jesse The Asshat Ventura! LOL!
Oldav8or wins the thread!
“Douchebaggistan”. Perfect.
Janos is little more than a cockroach turd in Psul’s filthy spandex. May he rot in hell permanently handcuffed to Jane Fonda, the DRG, and my ex-wife.
PI, you always have a way with words. 🙂
“Suing widows shouldn’t be profitable.” Best statement ever. Especially about Janos. But just to be clear, my opinion of him has always been the same. It follows: *NSFW*
I can’t stand Janos/Ventura. And I don’t care if he was a SEAL or not in some previous life.
Far as I know, he was a big star in a phony sport, a crappy governor of Minnesota, and since then has been nothing but a weirdo a conspiracy theorist, and general pain in the ass.
Shut up and go away, Janos, you guttersnipe.
Janos is only called a SEAL because he completed BUDS. He was not picked for the teams. He was UDT and never in Nam. Let’s pretend that a noncombat and nondeployed Marine or Solider was putting down a platoon as not losing enough men in A-stan or the Sandbox. The biggest fight would be . Who got to knock this mouth on his ass. Joe
Some humans are paid to play a heel.
That maggot fart -is- a heel, that was occasionally paid to play a human.
Even if this wasn’t about the widow of a bonafide hero, it’s wrong as two boys boys f’ing. Jimmy Janos aka Jesse Venture (also known by his Indian name “Walking Turd”) is a lying, no good wannabe who has tried to claim service as a SEAL that he did NOT perform. I had the chance to meet him one time and I figured him to be a decent guy from the way I’d heard him talk….boy was I ever disappointed. I met an actor, a fraud ….someone who was one thing in public, but totally different when not. So, when I heard the story about Chris Kyle decking him at a party and writing about it in his book…I knew what would happen. I did NOT expect the piece of shit to file suit and keep it going after Chris’ murder. HOWEVER, once it was a done deal and he “won”…it was totally his style to go running his mouth on any TV show that woukd have him. He didn’t have Chris to face anymore, so he’s just as brave as hell. He’s a total piece of shit and ANY standing that he had amongst any of us veterans is long gone….and will NEVER be regained.
Gawker? Really?
BARF.