| After Judge Preska
Grants Unsealing of Remand
Transcript Anti-SLAPP Motion
Granted
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Aug 7 – A California
businessman sentenced to 66
months in a criminal case
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Loretta A. Preska
followed up by filing a $1
million, then $10 million,
defamation suit about Press
reporting of a proceeding in
which his remand to jail was
debated.
Because the transcript of that
proceeding, held in open
court, had been sealed in
full, Judge Preska was asked
to unseal, which she granted
in large part, ruling that
"the Conference was open to
the public and the press...
that warrants the filing of
the transcript of the
Conference on the public
docket."
The transcript was filed in an
Anti-SLAPP motion to strike.
On August 7, Central District
of California Judge Mark C.
Scarsi granted the anti-SLAPP
motion, noting that "the Court
doubts Plaintiff could cure
his claims" and setting a
schedule to move for
attorney's fees as provided
for in anti-SLAPP law.
The
SDNY case is US v. Jones,
21-cr-59 (Preska)
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