National Review Prevails against Michael Mann
The D.C. superior court granted National Review s motion to dismiss climate scientist Michael Mann s long-running defamation suit.
More than eight years ago, Mann launched the suit against NR, writing privately that he saw it as an opportunity to ruin this filthy organization.
The lawsuit stemmed from a blog post on The Corner by Mark Steyn back in 2012 criticizing Mann s work. The climate scientist threatened a lawsuit unless NR removed the offending post and apologized, which it refused to do. Mann then sued NR, Steyn, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (Steyn quoted a CEI article in his post).
NR has maintained from the beginning that the post is not defamatory but is protected opinion, and that, besides, there s no way NR could have had malice when the post wasn t reviewed ahead of time and was posted by a nonemployee.
Justice delayed is pretty typical.