WASHINGTON — The Virginia Supreme Court denied Devin Nunes’ appeal to continue suing a Republican strategist whom the former California congressman claimed had conspired to defame him.
“Upon review of the record in this case and consideration of the argument submitted in support of and in opposition to the granting of an appeal, the Court is of the opinion there is no reversible error in the judgment complained of. Accordingly, the Court refuses the petition for appeal,” the clerk, Muriel-Theresa Pitney, wrote in the decision obtained by The Fresno Bee.
Nunes, who previously represented the area surrounding Tulare for about two decades, was suing the strategist, Liz Mair, alongside McClatchy, the parent company of The Bee, over a news story published in 2018. He sought $150 million from Mair in the case that was filed in Virginia’s Albemarle County Circuit Court.
