On Wednesday, Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young responded to CNN’s citation of the Taliban’s “Sharia law” in a scathing filing. Young’s counsel of Freedman Normand Friedland LLP ripped into CNN’s defense in the $1 billion defamation suit by calling it “a masterclass in absurdity and desperation.” Additionally, CNN may have blown up their own Sharia defense with an article post just last week, which admitted the Taliban were only now implementing the travel restrictions for women their legal defense relied on.
In a filing exclusively obtained by NewsBusters, lead counsel Vel Freedman and counsel Joe Delich made the case for why CNN’s reliance on Sharia law should be rejected by the court:
Unable to marshal any evidence that Young did something illegal, CNN nonetheless claims the Court can’t grant summary judgement on the legality of…
