Monday, June 13, 2016

Jessie Ventura aced by appeals court

Jessie "the Body" Ventura lost in federal appeals court Monday when his $1.8 million suit for damages was thrown out. He claims he was defamed by the American sniper hero and late author, Chris Kyle in the bestselling book "American Sniper."

I need to be very careful what I say about Ventura lest I be sued, and I cannot afford it.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent a portion of the case, the cry baby's defamation claim, back to the district court for a new trial. They say that Ventura's lawyers made improper statements and the trial court "clearly abused its discretion in denying a new trial."

An attorney for Kyle's estate had no comment and referred all questions to Kyle's publisher, HarperCollins. They also said they have no comment at this time.

Chris Kyle was a Navy SEAL and regarded as the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. In the book he wrote a subchapter called "Punching Out Scruff Face," and the scruff-faced Ventura wants to get paid for that obvious defaming of his scruffy face and inability to fight Kyle and win. 

The reason the fight started, Kyle had said, was that Ventura made offensive comments about the SEALs and also said that the SEALs "deserve to lose a few in Iraq."

Ventura was a former Underwater Demolition Teams/SEWAL and an ex-professional wrestler, which judging by the way he fought Kyle proves wrestling is phony. He testified at trial that he never made those statements and the fight never happened. He lamented that the book ruined his reputation in the tight-knit SEAL community.

Kyle had given sworn videotaped testimony, before he was murdered by a mentally ill fellow veteran, that the story was true and Ventura, seeing that his cash-cow was dead, went after Kyle's widow for the money.

Ventura was originally awarded $500,000 in 2014 and $11.3 million for unjust enrichment. But the low-life ex-Governor of Minnesota didn't realize that Taya Kyle, Chris' widow, was as tough as her dead husband and fought the verdict, asking that it be thrown out and a new trial to be ordered on First Amendment and other grounds. Of course, Ventura's lawyers argued that the verdict was correct--but they lost.

On Monday, a 3-judge appellate panel reversed the unjust-enrichment award, saying the theory of unjust-enrichment "enjoys no legal support under Minnesota law," and fails as a matter of law.

Two of the three judges also vacated the defamation award and sent that portion of the case back for a new trial.

Poor Jessie. 


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