Colorado Politics: For the second time in under a month, a former executive for Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems has moved forward in his efforts to hold liable those who amplified unproven allegations that he, personally, rigged the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump.
Last year, a federal trial judge agreed Eric Coomer, the director of product strategy and security for Dominion, was likely to prevail on his claims that Oklahoma podcaster Clayton Thomas “Clay” Clark and his “Thrivetime Show” had defamed him repeatedly.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rejected the defendants’ appeal, clarifying for the first time that Colorado’s state law protecting speech rights does not provide the type of immunity in federal defamation cases that is immediately appealable.
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