{"id":20488,"date":"2019-09-13T15:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T23:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/appeals-court-reinstates-lawsuit-against-fox-news-over-seth-rich-story\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T23:09:05","slug":"appeals-court-reinstates-lawsuit-against-fox-news-over-seth-rich-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/appeals-court-reinstates-lawsuit-against-fox-news-over-seth-rich-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Reinstates Lawsuit Against Fox News Over Seth Rich Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n A federal appeals court is allowing a lawsuit by Seth Rich’s parents against Fox News and two other defendants to proceed.<\/p>\n

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A federal appeals court Friday reinstated a lawsuit against Fox News and two other defendants over its coverage of the death of Seth Rich, a 27-year-old Democratic Party aide who was murdered in July 2016. <\/p>\n

The suit was filed by Rich’s parents over a Fox News story from May 2017. The story reported that Rich had been linked to the leak of thousands of Democratic Party emails to WikiLeaks and suggested his death might be related to the release of those emails. The police department in Washington, D.C., believes Rich’s shooting death was the result of a botched robbery. Fox retracted its story a week later, saying “the article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all of our reporting.”<\/p>\n

The suit by Seth Rich’s parents, Joel and Mary Rich, was dismissed last year by Judge George B. Daniels, of the Southern District of New York. Now, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has overturned<\/a> that ruling on the suit surrounding Fox News’ reporting about Rich’s death. <\/p>\n

The Riches have sued Fox News and Malia Zimmerman, the reporter on the story, and Ed Butowsky, a Texas investment manager and former unpaid Fox News commentator, for intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n