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=Superior Court Strikes Down Defamation Suit Over Campaign Website=

=Superior Court Strikes Down Defamation Suit Over Campaign Website=

It was the second defamation suit filed in less than six months by the same plaintiff, Christopher Curry, against the same defendants for ''alleged'' defamatory accusations on the [https://mcmasterforcobb.com/why-matt mcmasterforcobb.com] website. The original lawsuit was filed in Cobb County Superior Court on August 17, 2022 against former Superior Court Judge candidate Matt McMaster, his law firm, and his campaign entity, [https://mcmasterforcobb.com/ McMaster For Cobb LLC] and was voluntarily dismissed by Curry on December 2, 2022–less than one week from the day the case was set to be heard before the [https://www.cobbcounty.org/courts/superior-court/judges/judge-henry-thompson Honorable Henry R. Thompson]. Curry then filed the second defamation suit against the same parties on December 8, 2022. The irony: Curry’s name does not appear anywhere in the article complained of. Rather, Curry’s attorney Michael Kramer insisted that because the site had a link to a court document which included Curry’s name on it 14 times, the article itself was defamatory to Curry even without his name included. The court, however, never reached the issue of whether Curry could be “defamed by reference” as argued because Curry could not prove other material elements for his case to pass Constitutional muster against McMaster’s anti-SLAPP motion.

It was the second defamation suit filed in less than six months by the same plaintiff, Christopher Curry, against the same defendants for ''alleged'' defamatory accusations on the [https://mcmasterforcobb.com/why-matt mcmasterforcobb.com] website. The original lawsuit was filed in Cobb County Superior Court on August 17, 2022 against former Superior Court Judge candidate Matt McMaster, his law firm, and his campaign entity, [https://mcmasterforcobb.com/ McMaster For Cobb LLC] and was voluntarily dismissed by Curry on December 2, 2022–less than one week from the day the case was set to be heard before the [https://www.cobbcounty.org/courts/superior-court/judges/judge-henry-thompson Honorable Henry R. Thompson]. Curry then filed the second defamation suit against the same parties on December 8, 2022. The irony: Curry’s name does not appear anywhere in the article complained of. Rather, Curry’s attorney Michael Kramer insisted that because the site had a link to a court document which included Curry’s name on it 14 times, the article itself was defamatory to Curry even without his name included. The court, however, never reached the issue of whether Curry could be “defamed by reference” as argued because Curry could not prove other material elements for his case to pass Constitutional muster against McMaster’s anti-SLAPP motion.