Megan Thee Stallion will get main authorized backing as Clare Locke LLP information to revive her defamation win towards blogger Milagro Cooper.

Megan Thee Stallion acquired highly effective authorized help yesterday when Clare Locke LLP requested a federal court docket for permission to file arguments backing her effort to revive a jury’s defamation ruling towards blogger Milagro Gramz.

The Houston rapper won her case against Gramz in December, but a judge later threw out the defamation portion of the verdict. Now Clare Locke desires to assist her get it again.

Clare Locke informed the Southern District of Florida court docket that Milagro Gramz doesn’t deserve the identical authorized protections given to actual journalists. The regulation agency mentioned Florida’s retraction statute solely covers precise media members who publish content material to “further the free dissemination of information or disinterested and neutral commentary.”

Gramz testified she’s an “entertainer,” not a journalist. The jury additionally discovered she didn’t “impartially disseminate information” or “provide disinterested and neutral commentary,” based on Clare Locke’s submitting.

The regulation agency defined why it determined to leap into Megan’s authorized battle. Clare Locke mentioned its purchasers frequently endure “catastrophic reputational harm” from false claims that unfold quicker than victims can clear their names on social media.

Applying Florida’s retraction regulation to Milagro Gramz would set a harmful precedent, Clare Locke argued. The agency mentioned this “would compel many victims of defamation to subject themselves to more defamation as a precondition to seeking justice in court.”

Clare Locke identified that influencers like Gramz typically use retraction calls for to double down on their assaults. This places defamation victims in an inconceivable spot – both keep quiet or struggle costly court docket battles the place the percentages are stacked towards them.

The agency drew sharp distinctions between conventional media and on-line influencers. Real journalists comply with ethics codes and make use of authorized groups to keep away from publishing false data, Clare Locke wrote. But bloggers and influencers simply wish to “garner attention and clicks as quickly as possible regardless of the truth.”

Megan Thee Stallion and her authorized workforce are in search of to revive the $16,000 jury award that was vacated when the choose dismissed the defamation depend.

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