On August 16, 2002, Washington D.C. U.S. District
Judge Royce C. Lamberth dismissed, with prejudice, the lawsuit filed by Plaintiff
Carey D. Lohrenz against
Elaine Donnelly and the
Center for Military Readiness (CMR) in 1996. The Court’s 55-page opinion identified Lohrenz as a “limited-purpose public figure.” She was therefore not eligible to sue Donnelly for publishing the comprehensive CMR Special Report: Double Standards in Naval Aviation in 1995. The Court also found that Donnelly had acted responsibly and without “actual malice.”
1 Following preliminary motions, Plaintiff Lohrenz filed an appeal with the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit on April 11, 2003. Represented this time by Richmond Law School
Professor Rodney Smolla, Lohrenz challenged the District Court’s dismissal of her case on CMR’s Motion for Summary Judgment. Among other things, her appeal claims that: . . .
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