A federal judge has dismissed Brett Favre’s defamation lawsuit against fellow retired NFL player Shannon Sharpe. The judge ruled Monday that Sharpe used constitutionally protected speech on a sports broadcast when he criticized Favre’s connection to a welfare misspending case in Mississippi.
FILE - Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks to the media, Oct. 17, 2018, in Jackson, Miss. The deposition hearing for the civil lawsuit against Favre in Mississippi’s welfare scandal has been pushed back at the request of the athlete’s attorneys, a court document filed Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, shows.
Discussion of Mississippi welfare spending on “Undisputed” took place after extensive news coverage about allegations of Mississippi’s largest public corruption case.Brett Favre will testify under oath in Mississippi welfare scandal civil caseMississippi Auditor Shad White has said that from 2016 to 2019, the Mississippi Department of Human Services misspent more thanfrom the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program — money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the U.S.
“Similarly, Sharpe’s use of the words ‘people that really needed that money,’ the ‘lowest of the low,’ and ‘the underserved,’ again are examples of protected, colorful speech referring to needy families in Mississippi,” the judge wrote. The Associated Press sent an email to Favre attorney Michael Shemper late Monday to seek comment about the dismissal of the lawsuit.
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