Antifa files dubious suit against reporter

 PJ Media:

Mere days after filing a federal copyright lawsuit against journalist Andy Ngo, the violent Antifa members have retreated to a corner to suck their thumbs.

Grace Morgan and Melissa Lewis, who ally with Rose City Antifa and the Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front, and their Leftist “activist” attorneys brought the lawsuit nearly two weeks ago, alleging that Ngo retweeted their publicly disseminated videos without their permission.

Harmeet Dhillon, whose co-counsel at Center for American Liberty, Ron Coleman, defended Ngo, told the Post Millennial that the lawsuit ended as it began, frivolously, adding: “If U.S. copyright law depended upon whether the creator liked, or wanted critics to review their work, we might as well tear up the First Amendment because no journalist such as Mr. Ngo, would ever be able to critique anything the author didn’t want them to.”

On Monday, Los Angeles attorney Larry Zerner withdrew the lawsuit. Dhillon hinted that he and his co-counsel, activist Alan Kessler, did so because they would face sanctions for bringing such a “patently frivolous lawsuit” that was “quietly dismissed after an honest discussion amongst counsel.” In other words, they stated the obvious to the Antifa attorneys: you look dumb, your lawsuit is an insult to our and any judge’s intelligence, you’re going to lose, and you may have your hand slapped by a judge.

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I can't imagine why Antifa would want to be in court on this matter. 

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