doubt was cast over her rape claims.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\nWynn’s suit was initially centered around the notion that Kuta’s complaints taken by Chicago police were false and that the AP <\/i>purposefully described the contents of the Windy City report in an incomplete fashion. The AP <\/i>argued Garcia Cano’s article was a good-faith communication related to a matter of concern to the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecond, they asserted that Wynn, as a public figure, could not meet his burden to establish a probability of prevailing on his defamation claim,\u201d according to the Nevada Supreme Court.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat’s Next<\/h2>\n
The court’s ruling is unlikely to damage the fair reporting precedent, as the decision cites other case law, and that a citizen’s complaint to law enforcement doesn’t constitute an official report.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, AP <\/i>respondents do not point to, nor did our research reveal, any relevant caselaw where a common law fair report privilege jurisdiction applied the privilege to a citizen’s complaint of an alleged crime absent any further official action by law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AP <\/i>told the Review-Journal <\/i>it’s reviewing<\/a> the court’s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Wynn, the former patriarch of the gaming entity bearing his surname, notched a win of his own against the Associated Press (AP) Thursday in Nevada Supreme Court. The Silver State high court sided with the former casino developer in a defamation suit he brought against the news service in 2018. The court’s decision reverses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":153857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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