Brett Favre has withdrawn his defamation lawsuit against sports media personality Pat McAfee, both parties announced Thursday. Favre’s complaint alleged that McAfee defamed him with two statements.
Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre has withdrawn his defamation lawsuit against sports media personality Pat McAfee, both parties announced Thursday. Here’s what you need to know:in February, alleging both men made defamatory statements about him on their platforms “to make headlines and gain an audience by sullying Favre’s reputation.”role in the Mississippi welfare scandal
were protected by the First Amendment and were not provably wrong, nor did they meet the high bar of “actual malice” necessary in a defamation case. Favre has been sued by the Mississippi Department of Human Services for allegedly receiving taxpayer money for speeches he did not give.
McAfee’s filing noted the comments were prefaced with, “from the information that we have currently,” and, “obviously, Brett Favre Enterprises is alleging that this is all wrong.” The McAfee motion to dismiss also noted that despite adding these cautions, as a public figure Favre failed to allege that McAfee acted with “actual malice,” the high-bar standard in libel and defamation law necessary to convict.
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