US Supreme Court turns away challenge to media defamation protections

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NS child killer Penny Boudreau and the path to eventual release | SaltWire - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by a prominent former West Virginia mining company executive to make it easier for public figures to sue for defamation in a case that challenged longstanding and powerful protections for news organizations.

The justices turned away former Massey Energy CEO Donald Blankenship's appeal of a lower court's decision throwing out his defamation lawsuit against media outlets including Fox News and MSNBC for characterizing him as a"felon" during his unsuccessful 2018 run for the U.S. Senate. Blankenship was convicted by a jury in 2015 of a federal conspiracy offense that is classified as a misdemeanor, not a felony, after a 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 coal miners.

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