The NY State Supreme Court has sided with Project Veritas in their lawsuit against the New York Times.

This ruling allows the lawsuit to go ahead.

The case hinges on whether the NYT used dishonest tactics by claiming the article is opinion, after portraying it as fact.

Apparently, the case law is clearly on the side of PV on this topic. Also, the various appeals by NYT in this case, the judges have sided with PV.

NYT is citing the law on anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) to prevent this lawsuit. Every court ruling so far, in this case, the judges sided with PV, stating that the lawsuit has nothing to do with SLAPP, but rather "cloaking opinion as fact in an attempt to harm another party".

Make no mistake, the courts have not ruled that PV is correct in the case, but that that is what the lawsuit claims, which makes it a legal lawsuit regardless of SLAPP.

Great post! No hyperbole, no inexplicable sense of outrage... just the facts!
And I especially appreciated the last point of clarification: that the PV suit can go forward is not an indication of the validity of their case, only that the issue is a relevant one and both sides need to be heard.

IMHO the NYT gets full of itself at times... being brought down a peg would not be a bad thing!

Mind you, I do not agree with PV's tactics - and I'm frankly shocked that there hasn't been a liberal counter-punch to it - but that doesn't mean the NYT didn't act wrongly here...