EXCLUSIVE: Having already seen one lawsuit against the Emmy winning and Peabody Awards nominated When They See Us miniseries tossed, Netflix and Ava DuVernay are aiming today to get the defamation …
The context is obvious: not every scene and piece of dialogue is a transcription of actual conversations but involves “the selective editing of real history not only for time but also for clarity, flow, and emotional impact,'” the 36-page document from attorneys at offices of Dentons US LLP states. “Another District Judge recently recognized just that in dismissing defamation claims based on the Series by an interrogation training company.”, U.S.
In her legal swipe earlier this year, Fairstein used a similar tone to her Wall Street Journal op-ed of June 2019, in claiming that WTSU showed her as a “racist, unethical villain who is determined to jail innocent children of color at any cost.” The one time then head of the Manhatten D.A.’s sex crimes unit goes on to insist that her Felicity Huffman-portrayed depiction in the miniseries “are complete fabrications and readily contradicted by evidence in the public record.
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