Clockhmed and Mohamed Mohamed get SLAPPed! - Granite Grok

Clockhmed and Mohamed Mohamed get SLAPPed!

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Clockhmed’s dad sued, and now his family is screwed

Do you remember Clockhmed? Ahmed “Clock-Boy” Mohamed brought a ‘device’ to school that had the see-something-say-something crowd thinking bomb. He was arrested and suspended, and became the talk of the nation. Was it a misunderstanding or a ploy to tease an anti-Muslim narrative?

Whatever the plan was Ahmed’s father Mohamed Mohamed launched a series of defamation lawsuits against local officials and the media and that’s not going the way he’d hoped.

(POPEHAT) Mohamed Mohamed, acting (with questionable judgment) on behalf of Ahmed Mohamed, filed a civil complaint in Dallas County, Texas naming The Blaze, Glenn Beck, the Center for Security Policy (“CSP”), CSP member Jim Hanson, Fox Television, Fox correspondent Ben Ferguson, commentator Ben Shapiro, and Mayor Beth Van Duyne.  

Don’t forget; President Obama invited Clockhmed and his ‘clock’ to the White House. And Ahmed and his family (including a sister suspended from the same school for faking a bomb threat) were also invited to live in Qatar.

They should have stayed in Qatar because their lawsuits are costing them a fortune.

Texas has, as Ken White at Popehat describes it,  vigorous anti-SLAPP statutes.

Between Mohamed Mohamed’s poorly turned defamation claims, the response by lawyers for the defendants, Texas anti-SLAPP law, and that pesky First Amendment, the Mohamed Mohamed’s are learning a lesson or two about falsely accusing people of libel.

Mohamed has been utterly crushed by the Texas anti-SLAPP statute. This is the right result; his frivolous lawsuit was a classic SLAPP, calculated to harass detractors, garner publicity, and wage political war through other means.

And by crushed he is not just referring to Mohamed’s failure to profit from frivolous lawsuits. Texas law allows defendants to collect attorney’s fees for their defense. My back of the envelope calculations put the financial cost to Clockhmed’s family at nearly half a million dollars before this is over.

They walk away with nothing but legal bills, theirs and everyone else’s.

This might be an excellent opportunity to call Mr. Obama to ask for a small loan.

Maybe you can “sell” him the ‘clock you made.’

 

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