Sabal vs ADL – Stopping Anti-First Amendment Bullies
On December 13, 2024, The Honorable Reed O’Connor, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, in an 18-page order, dismissed Mr. Sabal’s claims regarding injurious falsehoods, left intact his claims that the ADL defamed him by including him in its “Glossary of Extremism and Hate” and implying that he is a “dangerous, extremist threat, and even a criminal.”
Judge O’Connor also left intact Sabal’s defamation claim regarding the ADL’s “Hate in the Lone Star State” report for similar reasons.
Plaintiff, Mr. John Sabal, a disabled Navy veteran who organizes patriotic festivals and has never been arrested, alleges that the ADL defamed him when it published his name in the ADL Center on Extremism’s “Glossary of Extremism and Hate,” which includes notorious terrorists and mass shooters, and claims as its mission to “monitor, expose and disrupt extremist threats.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/adls-attempt-summary-judgment-fails-25m-defamation-suit/