{"id":219750,"date":"2018-05-06T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=219750"},"modified":"2019-02-10T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:32:38","slug":"judges-frustrated-by-6-year-battle-in-u-s-courts-between-ethiopian-billionaire-and-exiled-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/219750","title":{"rendered":"Judges frustrated by 6-year battle in U.S. courts between Ethiopian billionaire and exiled journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three lawsuits have been filed by Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi and his partner Jemal Ahmed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imediaethics.org\/is-billionaires-defamation-win-libel-tourism\/\">London<\/a> and Atlanta since 2010 against an exiled Ethiopian journalist costing of over $1 million in legal fees so far. The case in Atlanta still rages on with no end in sight. Both sides are represented by high-powered attorneys who are locked in a drawn-out legal fight.   <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/US-Courthouse-Atlanta.jpg?resize=780%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"518\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/US-Courthouse-Atlanta.jpg?w=859&amp;ssl=1 859w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/US-Courthouse-Atlanta.jpg?resize=800%2C532&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/US-Courthouse-Atlanta.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA (COURTHOUSE NEWS) \u2013 Voicing some fatigue with the long-running defamation suit, the 11th Circuit grappled Friday with the appeal by an Ethiopian blogger who wants to be reinstated as a defendant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case is almost as old as I am,\u201d Judge Richard Goldberg joked to laughs in the Atlanta federal appeals court in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Normally on the bench at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York, Goldberg was on a three-judge panel this morning to hear an appeal in a libel case filed six years ago by Ethiopian billionaire Jemal Ahmed against a blog called the Ethiopian Review and its publisher&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/ethiopian-blogger-fights-defamation-suit-removal-at-11th-circuit\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three lawsuits have been filed by Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi and his partner Jemal Ahmed in London and Atlanta since 2010 against an exiled Ethiopian journalist costing of over $1 million in legal fees so far. The case in Atlanta still rages on with no end in sight. Both sides are represented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/US-Courthouse-Atlanta.jpg?fit=859%2C571&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-Vam","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219753,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219750\/revisions\/219753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}