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Michael Kassan’s Defamation Suit Against UTA’s Lawyer Is Dismissed
A judge dismissed Michael Kassan's suit against Bryan Freedman, finding that the lawyer did not defame Kassan by calling him a pathological liar.
Kassan claimed that Freedman, who represents UTA, “crossed the line” when he made the “shocking and defamatory” statement to Deadline. “Freedman did not claim to be an expert in the field of psychology and did not make factual assertions about Kassan’s mental fitness,” Murphy wrote. Murphy granted Freedman’s motion to strike the lawsuit under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, which provides a mechanism to dispense with frivolous complaints meant to chill speech on matters of public concern.
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