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HuffPost Sued For Defamation Over Kavanaugh Report

John Bickley
HuffPost Sued For Defamation Over Kavanaugh Report
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A former high school classmate of Brett Kavanaugh filed a lawsuit last week against the Huffington Post and its former journalist Ashley Feinberg for repeatedly making “false and defamatory” claims about him and a friend during the uncorroborated accusation-riddled confirmation process of the since-confirmed Supreme Court justice.

In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, plaintiff Derrick Evans — an African American professor from Gulfport, Mississippi who went to Georgetown Prep with Kavanaugh after earning a full scholarship to the school — accuses Feinberg of defaming him and friend Douglas Kennedy in a report published by HuffPost in September 2018.

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