Guy Cole Jr., the panel of judges upheld Smith’s ruling. In Wednesday’s opinion, authored by Chief U.S. District Judge George Smith in Ohio granted Woods’ motion for judgment on the pleadings, finding the question mark at the end of his original tweet allows for multiple interpretations.īoulger appealed, and the case was argued in front of the Sixth Circuit last October. He also eventually deleted the tweet and issued an apology to Boulger. Woods, who currently has over 2 million followers on the social media site, issued a correction after several news outlets identified the woman at the rally as Peterson. The actor’s March 12, 2016, tweet – which was retweeted by Donald Trump Jr., among others – read, in part, “So-called #Trump ‘Nazi’ is a #BernieSanders agitator/operative?” Woods suggested Boulger may have been planted at the event, but it was eventually determined the woman giving the Nazi salute was Birgitt Peterson, a Trump supporter. Portia Boulger, a Bernie Sanders supporter, sued Woods for defamation in 2017, after the actor tweeted a photo of Boulger alongside one taken of a woman giving the “Heil Hitler” salute at a Chicago rally for Trump. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) Actor James Woods poses at the premiere of the film “Bleed for This” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. CINCINNATI (CN) – The inclusion of a question mark in a tweet posted by conservative actor James Woods about a woman giving a Nazi salute at a 2016 rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump lends enough ambiguity to the message that it is not defamatory, a Sixth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday.
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