The American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital, D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh and several media outlets, including National Public Radio, Allbritton Communications, and WUSA9, have filed an amicus brief calling for the dismissal of R******* owner Dan Snyder’s lawsuit against Washington City Paper and writer Dave McKenna regarding claims made in McKenna’s “Cranky Redskins Fan’s Guide to Dan Snyder“.
And it’s really good.
“It is unlikely that any reader visualized the plaintiff in a HAZMAT suit spraying toxic defoliant around his back yard,” reads the brief, which, in its more legal moments, asks the court to dismiss Snyder’s suit under the District of Columbia’s anti-SLAPP laws. “Absent exceptionally dramatic and unexpected revelations by the plaintiff, his ability to demonstrate a likelihood of prevailing on the merits appears to be of the same order of magnitude as the likelihood of the Redskins winning this year’s Super Bowl,” the brief cracks.
The City Paper filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit last month; the amicus brief is filed in support of that motion.
SB Nation has some of the best gems in the filing. (We can’t help but think that Cheh, who has some experience with filing funny memos, may have had a hand in constructing this thing.) The complete brief, in all its glory, can be read below.
