Amin added that it’s premature for Amazon and Wondery to claim that the content of the podcast episode was in the public interest and not motivated by “actual malice.” Both of those are fact issues, he said, and neither is ripe for review at the motion-to-dismiss stage of litigation.
Legal Proceedings and Jurisdiction
Amin’s latest filing comes about a month after both companies asked U.S. District Judge Lisa G. Wood to be dismissed from his suit. The suit also names podcasting network Morbid Network and “Seven Deadly Sinners” host Rachael O’Brien as defendants.
In the original complaint, Amin — recently dismissed from a proposed class action filed by women who alleged they were subjected to unnecessary gynecological procedures at Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center — said the defendants defamed him by hurling false allegations about his work at the facility.
Amazon Must Face Podcast Defamation Suit : Previous Allegations and Defamation Cases
The claims against Amin arose from a September 2020 letter sent by Project South to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the ICE Atlanta field office, and the Irwin County Detention Center. Amin alleged that Project South “worked to sensationalize” the contents of the letter, despite it being revealed “only one day after the letter was sent” that the claims weren’t based on firsthand accounts and that he had “performed only two hysterectomies on ICDC patients.”
