"clock boy" Ahmed Mohamed lawsuit dismissed

[ezgeze]

'Clock Boy' Loses in Court, Father's Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01...uit-dismissed/

A district court judge in Texas has*dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Ahmed Mohamed on his own behalf and on behalf of his 15-year-old son, Ahmed Mohamed. They had sued Fox News, Glenn Beck, and the mayor of Irving -- among others -- for defamation in September of 2016.

A year earlier, Ahmed, then a 14-year-old freshman at an Irving, Texas, high school, was arrested, briefly detained by police, and suspended for three days after bringing to school a "cool clock"*that looked like a briefcase bomb. Ahmed claimed to have "invented" the easily assembled clock, and that he had brought it to school to show it to his shop teacher.

The incident led many to question the Mohamed family's motives. Newly appointed District Court Judge Maricela Moore dismissed the lawsuit following a nearly three-hour hearing on Monday, according to the American Freedom Law Center

The motion to dismiss was filed by lawyers from the American Freedom Law Center (“AFLC”) and local counsel Pete Rowe on behalf of the Center for Security Policy (“CSP”) and Jim Hanson, two of the defendants in the defamation case, which also named as defendants the local Fox affiliate, Glenn Beck, and Beck’s production company.

Mohamed had sued Hanson and CSP for statements Hanson had made on Beck’s program about the connection between the Clock Boy hoax bomb affair, the attendant media frenzy created in large part by his father Mohamed, civilization jihad, and the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group in the United States that promotes civilization jihad.

During the hearing, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel David Yerushalmi explained to Judge Moore that the purpose of the lawfare-driven lawsuit was to intimidate into silence those who might comment publicly on the connection between jihad, terrorism, sharia, and Islam. As such, Yerushalmi argued, "this case is a classic Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation or ‘SLAPP’ case and should be dismissed.”

During the lengthy hearing, Judge Moore pressed Mohamed’s lawyer, Fort Worth attorney Susan Hutchison, to provide any facts that would suggest that Hanson and the other defendants had said anything false or defamatory about Mohamed or his son during the television broadcasts. After spending a painfully embarrassing 15 minutes flipping through reams of paper, Mohamed’s lawyer was unable to provide any such evidence.

Now that the lawsuit has been dismissed, the AFLC is petitioning the court for lawyer fees and sanctions against Clock Boy's dad.

First off......No, he didn't "invent" a clock, he ripped the guts out of an already existing clock, threw it into a box to make it look like a bomb and brought it to school to get a reaction.

Finally, someone with some common sense. Thanks Texas.

Also, I wonder if this family is now pegged as a security risk for jetting off to "study abroad" for 8 months in the Middle East.
Yeah.....

[Super Kami Dende]

Good shit, the little lying piece of shit and his Father deserve nothing. Was simply people trying to play the system by pretending to be a victim.

[Deleted]

ANELE just a clock bro

[sheggaro]

And the fraud did pay off. I remember how he got plenty of free stuff from companies trying to look good.

[Hiricine]

If only they could fine the family the cost of litigating the case and defending it.

[Independent voter]

The lawyer probably approached him and did the thing on contingency. The lawyer convinced the family they could win and the family started thinking about what they could do with all that money.

[Crissi]

For what its worth, its not completely dismissed. The lawsuit against the mayor is still going

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/irvin...efamation-suit

[Sliske]

now for a counter suit by the school district for defamation

[Serpha]

Thanks Obama!!!

[PC2]

Clock boy and clock dad are fraudsters.

[ezgeze]

If only they could fine the family the cost of litigating the case and defending it.

They are trying to get compensation for just that.

[Karrotlord]

How is calling someone a terrorist not defamation? Because the judge agrees that he's a fucking terrorist?

[RickJamesLich]

The kid that duped google, Obama, and many many more lol. He doesn't know how to build a clock, but he does have the makings of a great con man.

[PACOX]

Very misleading title. Its important to not the actual cases dismissed.

[Zyster]

How is calling someone a terrorist not defamation? Because the judge agrees that he's a fucking terrorist?

Media outlets might have, but not the people being targeted by the lawsuit. Hence why the lawyer could not find anything that the DEFENDENTs said.

[primalmatter]

He got thousands of dollars in high end computer equipment and met the president. Gotta give him some props for fleecing morons.

[Dynajr]

Bahahaha. Kid assembled and setup a clock out of parts of other electronics and made it work and you're dogging on him? For so long after the incident people were calling him names and insinuating that he's something that he's not. Or that he "made it look like a bomb" as if you know that that's what he was going for. Nah, you're nothing but a typical representative of the new alt right white trash that hates them because they're not white and christian. Congratulations, you're nothing more than a pretentious little child that has been tantalized by the hate and who loves to castigate others based on trash you somehow want to be true such as them being something they're not or even what the kid's motives were. But right, you, the armchair general, believes that he was trying to make it look like a bomb to get a reaction, as if muslims in this country don't already get enough hate thrown their way from ignorant children with an IQ of a boiled potato, you know, kids like yourselves. You people are as pathetic as pathetic gets. Then again, this is 'Murica. Where even a guy who lies to your face, tells you he lies to your face, gets elected to the post of president. Bahahahaha, so much stupid here it's sad. Enjoy your mobile homes.

[GennGreymane]

Wait.... people still care about this?

[shrunken]

I wonder if he'll get to keep all of those kneejerk Ivy League scholarships he was offered for rigging up a clock.

[Merkava]

Wait.... people still care about this?

I'm interested.

Hey @cubby, you still here? I haven't been on much lately. Remember this?

Yeah, he's going to get a good sized pile of money from this little event.

Is gambling legal on MMO Champ? $25 to the charity of your choice?

If it is, I accept! Plus, if we're giving it to charity I'm not sure it's officially gambling. Unless your charity is my local bar.

Seems the only thing left to do is pick the charity. Hmmm, Let's make it Trump Foundation. How's that? Just kidding. Make it Planned Parenthood.

Edit - Sorry if this comes across as snarky. Just good natured fun. Hope you re doing well and had safe relaxing holiday season.