On Thursday (July 25), CNN appeared desperate in a legal filing connected to the $1 billion defamation suit against them, when they petitioned Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit to force Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young to appear in person for a mediation conference. The topic of the meeting they want to have? “Settlement talks.”
Young’s legal team filed a motion asking the court to allow him to attend the mediation conference remotely, but CNN countered with a filing expressing their opposition to that request.
“CNN did not choose the forum for this lawsuit,” CNN’s lawyer Deanna Shullman huffed to the court. “Plaintiffs Zachary Young (“Young”) and Nemex Enterprises Inc. (“Nemex”) made the deliberate decision to bring this matter in Bay County, Florida. They cannot now try to claim that they are not available to travel to the…
