In two lawsuits that were addressed in one ruling, Reed was seeking $1 billion in damages from a number of golf analysts and writers and their respective media platforms.
he was given during the 2021 Farmers Insurance Open. In that filing, Reed requested damages of at least $250 million.In both cases, Reed contended that the analysts’ remarks had, among other alleged harms, created a “hostile work environment” and cost him “multiple multimillion dollar sponsorship deals.
The statements from the writers and analysts that Reed’s two lawsuits described as defamatory numbered over four dozen, but Corrigan wrote that many of them were “not about Reed” and some constituted “matters of opinion or permissible rhetorical hyperbole.” Other listed statements were factual in nature, the truth of which were “not challenged” by Reed, according to the judge, who added he did “not meet the required pleading of actual malice to hold the press liable for defamation.
Corrigan wrote that he was dismissing the lawsuits with prejudice in part because in previous opportunities to amend them, Reed had changed very little and “continued to assert the same alleged defamatory statements” without addressing “deficiencies” the judge had pointed out. Corrigan also wrote that allowing further amendments “would be fruitless” because all but one of the statements could not be considered defamatory.
“The Court has no role in determining whether some of the coverage of Reed is unfair or excessive,” wrote the judge. “Rather, the Court bases its ruling on Florida defamation law and the First Amendment. This means the cases must end here.”
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