A judge in the Project Veritas v New York Times case has just ordered the paper to explain how they improperly received and published privileged communications from the seizure of Project Veritas phones and data, according to Harmeet Dhillon:
“Judge in Project Veritas/NYT case orders @nytimes to defend its online publication of the privileged legal memos of our client, which occurred AFTER the FBI seized James O’Keefe’s phones and which contain extensive privileged communications with dozens of attorneys.”
!!! Judge in Project Veritas/NYT case orders @nytimes to defend its online publication of the privileged legal memos of our client, which occurred AFTER the FBI seized James O’Keefe’s phones and which contain extensive privileged communications with dozens of attorneys: pic.twitter.com/6ZKdH2BsLv
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 18, 2021
Counsel handling that case and who filed the papers leading to this order are Clare Locke and Abrams Fensterman. As noted, Project Veritas, like other news outlets, has lots of lawyers and lots of litigation.
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 18, 2021
Harmeet has since said that despite what the media is reporting, this is a legitimate concern for the judge in this case:
NYT is trying to get its cronies in corporate media to call this a prior restraint. But NYT published the memos already, then took them down & substituted a story about the memos. NYT is a party in litigation with Project Veritas, which is why this court has questions. https://t.co/6NGXUSzdQ4
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 18, 2021
Someone needs to hold the New York Times accountable for this illegal breach of O’Keefe’s privacy and hopefully this judge is the one to do it.