{"id":1312,"date":"2024-06-12T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/joshua-wrights-108m-defamation-case-against-former-students-to-proceed-to-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:30:05","slug":"joshua-wrights-108m-defamation-case-against-former-students-to-proceed-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/joshua-wrights-108m-defamation-case-against-former-students-to-proceed-to-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Wright&#8217;s $108M Defamation Case Against Former Students to Proceed to Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Despite recent heated court battles, a $108 million lawsuit filed against two women who came forward\u00a0last year\u00a0accusing former George Mason University law professor Joshua Wright of sexual misconduct is set to go to trial in March.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Patrick Blanch of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, on May 31 denied a plea in bar from defendants Elyse Dorsey, a Kirkland &amp; Ellis partner, and Angela Landry, a counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, in which they argued, in part, that their statements were protected under Virginia\u2019s Anti-SLAPP statute, according to a May 3 memo in support of the plea.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite recent heated court battles, a $108 million lawsuit filed against two women who came forward\u00a0last year\u00a0accusing former George Mason University law professor Joshua Wright of sexual misconduct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1847,294,720,1845,1849,1848,342,1846],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-108m","tag-case","tag-defamation","tag-joshua","tag-proceed","tag-students","tag-trial","tag-wrights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}