Court: Michael Moore did not defame Iraq vet

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Court: Michael Moore did not defame Iraq vet
By Jay Lindsay - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Mar 27, 2008 18:00:22 EDT

BOSTON — A federal appeals court has ruled filmmaker Michael Moore did not defame an Iraq war veteran when Moore used a clip from a television interview without his permission in the anti-war documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Army Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost his arms when a tire on a Black Hawk helicopter exploded while he and another reservist were servicing it, claimed he was humiliated and emotionally distressed after Moore included a clip from a TV interview in his scathing 2004 documentary criticizing the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.

But the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal judge’s decision to dismiss Damon’s lawsuit against Moore.

Moore said the unanimous decision was total vindication, and he noted the three-judge panel included two judges appointed by President Bush. Moore said he hasn’t lost a lawsuit in 17 years of film-making, which shows his movies are accurate.

“I make movies that point out larger truths ... about what’s happening in this country and the world in which we live, and I have to then suffer through an onslaught of attack,” he said.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/ap_michaelmoorelawsuit_032708/