Fed Judge Tosses RFK jr's Suit Again DK Blogger

As reported in the Daily Beast, DK diarist David Vickrey won his motion the dismiss RFK jr’s absurd libel case.  Kennedy, who resides in either New York or California brought suit against Vickrey, who lives in Maine, in the courts of New Hampshire.  New Hampshire does not have any laws punishing spurious cases.

Since none of the parties resided in NH, Vickrey successfully moved to have the case sent to Federal court.  Judge Steven McAuliffe recently ruled that since Mr. Vickrey did not write the diary in question in New Hampshire, the case was dead.

“Vickrey does not live or work in New Hampshire, he has no meaningful contacts with this state, he did not consult any New Hampshire sources when writing the article, he did not mention New Hampshire in the article or otherwise ‘direct’ the article to this state, and he had no reason to anticipate that the ‘brunt’ of the (alleged) injury to Kennedy’s reputation would be felt in New Hampshire—particularly since Kennedy is not a resident of New Hampshire and his connections to New Hampshire are, at best, attenuated.”

Judge McAuliffe further noted that:

McAuliffe further dismissed as “plainly false” Kennedy’s claim that Vickrey had published his piece with the intention of damaging the wannabe White House occupant’s campaign, since the post predated Kennedy’s announcement of his candidacy by two years.

FAFO Bobbie.