EXCLUSIVE: Megan Thee Stallion Will get Heavy Authorized Firepower To Proceed Battle With Milagro Gramz

Megan Thee Stallion will get main authorized backing as Clare Locke LLP recordsdata 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 court docket for permission to file arguments backing her effort to revive a jury’s defamation ruling towards blogger Milagro Gramz.

The Houston rapper received her case towards Gramz in December, however a decide 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 court docket 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 info” or “present disinterested and impartial commentary,” in line with Clare Locke’s submitting.

The regulation agency defined why it determined to leap into Megan’s authorized battle. Clare Locke mentioned its shoppers commonly endure “catastrophic reputational hurt” from false claims that unfold sooner 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 court docket.”

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

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

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

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