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Litigation

Dec. 2, 2011

Suit against CNN unlikely to be thrown out

Skeptical of CNN's claims that its free speech rights were infringed, a federal court judge appears poised to allow a case against the news site over captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing to proceed.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


OAKLAND - Skeptical of CNN's claims that its free-speech rights were infringed, a federal court judge appears poised to allow a case against the news site over captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing to proceed.


At a hearing Thursday, Magistrate Judge Laurel D. Beeler seemed ready to adopt her tentative order denying CNN's motion to throw out the suit, filed by the Greater Los Angeles Age...

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