Court revives suit alleging Fox News inflicted 'emotional torture' on Seth Rich family

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Court revives suit alleging Fox News inflicted 'emotional torture' on Seth Rich family
Michael IsikoffChief Investigative Correspondent
,Yahoo News•September 13, 2019


A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit against Fox News brought by the parents of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, concluding there are plausible claims that the conservative cable network was party to a “campaign of emotional torture.”

The long-awaited opinion by a three-judge panel in New York, reversing a lower court ruling, opens the door for the lawyers representing Seth Rich’s parents, Joel and Mary Rich, to obtain internal documents and depose top Fox News executives about a May 16, 2017, story falsely alleging that the DNC staff member had leaked internal party emails to WikiLeaks prior to his murder.

“We would not wish what we have experienced upon any other parent — anywhere,” Joel and Mary Rich said in a statement Friday they provided to Yahoo News. “We appreciate the appellate court’s ruling and look forward to continuing to pursue justice.”

The story in question, authored by Fox News staffer Malia Zimmerman, gave mainstream prominence to one of the most insidious conspiracy theories to arise out of the 2016 election. Suggesting that Rich’s death was a political assassination, it was promoted at various times by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, President Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone and then White House senior adviser Steve Bannon.

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