Since GIL-Fails tend to come in groups, I thought I should check PACER. Yep, there is something there. His Corsi-Klayman case against Infowars, Alex Jones, David Jones, and Roger Stone in the Western District of Texas was dismissed, with prejudice.
Sadly, the defendant's motion for sanctions was dismissed without prejudice for refile. In addition, in the final order:
IT IS ORDERED that Infowars, LLC, Free Speech Systems, LLC, Alex E. Jones, David Jones, Owen Shroyer, and Roger Stone are awarded costs of court.
I was hoping they would lose something as well.. OH well.
So, to review, the magistrate's report and recommendation (to which the judge accepted):
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .108.0.pdf
Twombly and Iqbal, as is tradition, make an appearance in the legal standard. As the magistrate judge included "conclusory" three times in the report, well, it looks like Twombly vexed Klayman again.
Farah v Esquire makes an appearance.
So the judge accepted the report with some words, given the various whining from Klayman after the report.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... .122.0.pdf
It included:
Corsi and Klayman next argue that the magistrate judge erroneously recommended dismissing the defamation claims against Shroyer and David Jones based on a lack of personal involvement because allegations in the complaint that defendants were working "in concert" to
defame Corsi and Klayman were ignored. The court disagrees. In reviewing the pleadings, the magistrate judge determined that Corsi and Klayman' s claims of alleged concerted action or conspiracy were insufficient to survive dismissal because the assertions were wholly conclusory
and unsupported by any facts. In their objections, Corsi and Klayman provide no basis to sustain this objection and merely reassert the same insufficient, conclusory claims while referencing affidavits outside of the scope of a Rule 12(b)(6) inquiry.
IANAL but it sounds like.. Vexed again.
Here is the docket. Klayman was quick to request reconsideration through the filing has deficiencies. He also probably a timing thing, replied to the defendant's response to Klayman's objection to the report. The defendants were also quick to respond to his motion for reconisderation.
The case is marked as closed.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16 ... owars-llc/