Shirley Sherrod seeks Breitbart's widow as substitute in defamation lawsuit
A year and a half after the death of Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod is taking legal action to have the conservative journalist's widow substitute as defendant in the Sherrod vs. Breitbart defamation lawsuit.
The motion, which Sherrod filed in Washington's U.S. District Court last month, seeks to make Susannah Breitbart responsible for providing financial recovery for "libel and slander" caused by the Breitbart-publicized videos that led to her resignation in 2010. Mrs. Breitbart objected to the motion on Saturday.
Sherrod, a former Agriculture Department employee, was forced to resign after Breitbart publicized videos from a 2010 NAACP speech in which Sherrod appeared to make racist remarks about white people. However, the videos were edited, and a subsequent review of Sherrod's full remarks showed her saying she had come to reject racial stereotyping. She was ultimately offered official apologies and a new position with USDA.
In Feb. 2011, Sherrod brought a defamation lawsuit against Breitbart, his aide Larry O'Connor, and an unnamed defendant, all of whom were believed to be involved in the publicizing of the video. In the suit, Sherrod claimed the video had damaged her reputation and prevented her from continuing her work. Breitbart and O'Connor sought to dismiss the suit under an anti-SLAPP law, but were unsuccessful.
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