A judge in Florida agreed Thursday to transfer ex-prosecutor Linda Fairstein’s defamation lawsuit against Netflix to New York, finding that is a more appropriate venue for the case involving …
” as a racist prosecutor who orchestrated the railroading of five innocent teenagers. She also sued director Ava DuVernay and writer Attica Locke.
Netflix nonetheless sought to invoke the California anti-SLAPP law to have the case dismissed. The streamer’s attorneys conceded that the 11th Circuit prohibited such a motion, but they argued that the case ought to be heard in New York, which allowed them. But in July, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New York,the 11th Circuit in ruling that the California anti-SLAPP statute does not apply in federal court.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, U.S. District Judge John Badalamenti granted Netflix’s motion to transfer the case to New York. Badalamenti, whose court is in Fort Myers, Fla., found that it would be more convenient for the parties and witnesses to conduct the case in New York.
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