CNN was handed a major defeat in the $1 billion defamation case against them by Florida’s First District Court of Appeals on Friday as they denied the Cable News Network’s motion for a rehearing; their hope was that the court would overturn its decision that Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young could seek punitive damages at trial.
In one sentence, the court shattered CNN’s final attempt to delay financial discovery, which would open up CNN’s check books for examination:
BY ORDER OF THE COURT: The Court denies the motion for rehearing en banc, or alternatively, for certification of conflict with the decisions of the Third and Fourth Districts and of a question of great public importance docketed June 26, 2024.
As NewsBusters previously reported, CNN was refusing to comply with turning over documents necessary for financial…
