Law Firm’s Questionable Tactics Threaten Media Freedom

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Both local and national media covered Welter’s arrest and subsequent fall from fame heavily in the weeks following the incident, and now, Welter has retained Kelly/Warner to get that media coverage wiped from the annals of the Internet.

According to the recent court filing we received, Welter has filed a defamation suit and is seeking injunction against dozens of major media companies and websites, including ABC News, ABC 15, Daily Mail, Fox News, YouTube, Heavy.com, Fox Sports, NY Daily News and more. There are even a number of Twitter updates, Reddit threads and Pinterest pins named in the filing.

The filing reads, “Defendants posted voluminous false, damaging, misleading and defamatory statements about Plaintiff on the Internet, located at numerous web links, and making a variety of untrue and damaging statements and implications aimed at Plaintiff.”

Here’s are some the articles the filing tried to remove from Google:

 

In addition to the injunction “compelling Defendants to remove from the Internet all material pertaining to the Plaintiff,” Welter is also seeking general, special and punitive damages.