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Veritas' O'Keefe SDNY Bid To Send His Case
Against Twitter Back to State Court Pends
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 16 –
James O'Keefe III
of Project Veritas filed a New
York State lawsuit against
Twitter, for after banning his
account saying it was based on
him operating fake accounts.
O'Keefe says the
claim is false and has caused
him damage.
Twitter through counsel at
Gibson Dunn filed a notice of
removal to Federal
court.
On June 16, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Barbara C.
Moses scheduled a pre-motion
conference, putting outside
her 20th floor courtroom door
a sign requiring
hand-sanitizing for COVID-19
purposes. Inner City
Press went to cover
it.
Counsel for
O'Keefe from the Dhillon Law
Group in Montclair, NJ noted
that their state complaint did
not specify damages, and
therefore removal to Federal
court is ineffective, since
the case does not meet the
$75,000 jurisdictional
requirement.
Courtesy Elizabeth Williams, defense attorney
Amer Ahmed and plaintiff attorney Ronald Coleman
(also here).
Judge
Moses has so far, by the
afternoon of June 16 entered a
barebones Minute Entry into
the docket. But referral back
to state court, for lack of
subject matter jurisdiction,
is on the table.
Inner City
Press will continue to follow
the case(s), O'Keefe III v.
Twitter, Inc., 21-cv-4240
(Woods / Moses) and O'Keefe
III v. Twitter, Inc., Filed in
NYS Supreme Court, Westchester
County on April 19, 2021,
Index No. 54926/2021
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