From Amin v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC, decided today by Judge Lisa Godbey Wood (S.D. Ga.):
NBC published multiple reports about allegations that Plaintiff, Dr. Mahendra Amin, performed mass hysterectomies on female detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Georgia. NBC reported allegations that Dr. Amin performed hysterectomies that were unnecessary, unauthorized, or even botched. Dr. Amin then brought this case, asserting that NBC defamed him under Georgia law….
The controversy stemmed from allegations by "a former nurse at the facility named Dawn Wooten" (see the end of this post for more details on those allegations, but the excerpts below also incorporate some discussion of the Wooten claims). The letter led to a good deal of media coverage, including reports on NBC. (It also led, after the coverage, to a government investigation, which found evidence of various improprieties at the facility, but no evidence of mass hysterectomies performed by Amin.)
