American Hustle's lawyers tried an odd strategy in a libel suit from science writer Paul Brodeur, Eriq Gardner writes. Brodeur claims he was defamed when a character in the film said he'd written that microwave ovens destroyed nutrition. The strategy, from a defense brief: "The statement made by 'unhinged' fictional character Rosalyn in the 'screwball farce' American Hustle is not reasonably understood as a statement of fact." It didn't work.
April 10, 2015
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