Megan Thee Stallion will get main authorized backing as Clare Locke LLP information to revive her defamation win towards blogger Milagro Cooper.

Megan Thee Stallion obtained highly effective authorized assist yesterday when Clare Locke LLP requested a federal courtroom for permission to file arguments backing her effort to revive a jury’s defamation ruling towards blogger Milagro Gramz.

The Houston rapper gained her case towards Gramz in December, however a choose later threw out the defamation portion of the decision. Now Clare Locke desires to assist her get it again.

Clare Locke advised the Southern District of Florida courtroom that Milagro Gramz doesn’t deserve the identical authorized protections given to actual journalists. The regulation agency mentioned Florida’s retraction statute solely covers precise media members who publish content material to “additional the free dissemination of knowledge or disinterested and impartial commentary.”

Gramz testified she’s an “entertainer,” not a journalist. The jury additionally discovered she didn’t “impartially disseminate data” or “present disinterested and impartial commentary,” in keeping with Clare Locke’s submitting.

The regulation agency defined why it determined to leap into Megan’s authorized battle. Clare Locke mentioned its purchasers frequently undergo “catastrophic reputational hurt” from false claims that unfold quicker than victims can clear their names on social media.

Making use of Florida’s retraction regulation to Milagro Gramz would set a harmful precedent, Clare Locke argued. The agency mentioned this “would compel many victims of defamation to topic themselves to extra defamation as a precondition to searching for justice in courtroom.”

Clare Locke identified that influencers like Gramz typically use retraction calls for to double down on their assaults. This places defamation victims in an inconceivable spot – both keep quiet or battle costly courtroom battles the place the percentages are stacked towards them.

The agency drew sharp distinctions between conventional media and on-line influencers. Actual journalists comply with ethics codes and make use of authorized groups to keep away from publishing false data, Clare Locke wrote. However bloggers and influencers simply need to “garner consideration and clicks as shortly as doable whatever the fact.”

Megan Thee Stallion and her authorized workforce are searching for to revive the $16,000 jury award that was vacated when the choose dismissed the defamation rely.

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