Jury sides with Louisiana Supreme Court justice in rare defamation win for public official
A jury sided with Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jefferson Hughes on Monday, finding a local newspaper and two former editors defamed him in a 2019 editorial. The Iberville Parish jury awarded Hughes $300,000 in damages for an investigative editorial published in Baton Rouge-based newspaper, The Advocate, according to WWL Louisiana, a New Orleans-based CBS affiliate.…
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