The US supreme court has turned down a request by former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz to revive a $300m defamation lawsuit filed against CNN over the network’s coverage of remarks he made while defending Donald Trump during one of the president’s first-term impeachments.
In a notice on Monday, the majority declined to take up the constitutional law attorney’s case in a brief, unexplained order that left in place the legal standards for public figures who claim defamation. Conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented on the decision, calling on the supreme court to reconsider those standards.
