In late February, Dr. Mahendra Amin settled his defamation suit with MSNBC (for an undisclosed amount) after they falsely claimed that he had performed medically unnecessary hysterectomies on illegal immigrant women in the custody of ICE, erroneously dubbing him “the uterus collector.” NewsBusters recently spoke with Dr. Amin’s lead counsel Georgia State Representative Stacey Evans (D) and co-counsel Scott Grubman about the case and the future of defamation law.
Evans, who has been practicing law for 22 years and defamation law for 15, is an elected Democrat in the Georgia House of Representatives and was shocked when learning about the accusations against her client. “[W]hen I had heard the allegations and, you know, they sounded horrible” and “particularly stood out because the allegations against him were so egregious,” she said.
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