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California City Ordered To Pay Online Critic's Legal Bills
- TechDirt, Monday, October 12, 2015 4:33 PM
A judge has ruled that Inglewood, California must pay $117,741 in legal fees to online critic Joseph Teixeira, who defeated the city's copyright infringement lawsuit. Teixeira was sued after posting videos that mocked city mayor James Butts; those videos incorporated clips from city council meetings. A federal judge said that the most "plausible" purpose of the lawsuit was "to stifle defendant's political speech after he harshly criticized the city's elected officials."
