The 8th Circuit Appeals Court has ordered a new trial in Jesse Ventura’s defamation suit against the estate of Chris Kyle for comments in Kyle’s bestseller American Sniper and subsequent remarks about that passage. The defamation award of $500,000 was vacated, and an additional award of $1.3 million for “unjust enrichment” was thrown out entirely, with that finding reversed. The opinion from the three-judge appellate court comes seven months after the court said it would consider ordering a new trial in the wake of Ventura’s defense team making comments about HarperCollins’ insurance being “on the hook” if the jury found Ventura […]
