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Volokh also reported that Kelly/Warner filed the case Welter v. Does. Megan Welter made the national news as an Iraq War veteran who became an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader and made the news again when she was arrested for allegedly beating her boyfriend, Ryan McMahon. "Two years later, Welter filed a defamation lawsuit against McMahon, and McMahon submitted a stipulation saying that his original allegations were false. (It is impossible to tell from the record whether the signer of the stipulation was indeed the real Ryan McMahon, but let us assume that he was,)" Volokh wrote. "Welter then got an injunction stating that McMahon’s allegedly defamatory statements were posted on ABC News, Fox Sports, CBS News and USA Today, presumably because articles on those sites were based on those statements. And the injunction stated that defendant must take all actions, 'including requesting removal of the URLs from all internet search engines … to remove all such webpages and cache from the Internet, such that the Content is rendered unsearchable.' Again, because this was a stipulated judgment, there was no factual determination of whether McMahon’s statements were actually defamatory."

However, the actual publishers of the information were never served with Welter's lawsuit nor had they been notified that they had been sued.

The Arizona Bar will confirm investigations; however will not address specifics until it concludes.

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Adraine Thompson is a veteran investigative reporter covering issues of national interest.