Norred Law is honored to represent John Sabal in his defamation suit against the Anti-Defamation League, which ironically has a penchant for defaming anyone with the moniker of "anti-Semite" who doesn't match their political positions. 

This case has been going on for just over a year, and discovery has been completed. We were asked to step in after the ADL sought summary judgment and failed. Judge O'Connor's order on that motion carefully evaluated Mr. Sabal's complaint, dismissed his claims regarding injurious falsehoods, left intact his claim that the ADL defamed him by including him in its "Glossary of Extremism and Hate" and implying that he is a "dangerous, extremist threat, and even a criminal." Judge O'Connor also left intact Sabal's defamation claim regarding the ADL's "Hate in the Lone Star State" report for similar reasons. 

Litigants often try to spin a denial of a motion for summary judgment. Certainly, Mr. Sabal is glad to see his claims remain alive after the full-throated attack on them from the ADL, but no one should see the court's order and read into it more than what was stated - Mr. Sabal filed a valid complaint and a jury should be the trier of fact next year during trial.

I have been asked why we took this case, and I'm eager to explain. The Anti-Defamation League is a Non-Governmental Organization ("NGO"), one of several which have left their moorings and are nothing more than anti-First Amendment bullies, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Media Matters. All these organizations were, perhaps at one time, honest brokers of information, but now uses slash-and-burn name-calling to shut people down, as the ADL attempts to do with its list of alleged "anti-Semitic criminals". 

The left's war on free speech must be rejected, and cultural critics should be able to offer their opinions without fear of being called heinous names. We mean to help Mr. Sabal in trial next year and protect him from an ADL which is so perverted in its behavior that it is now practicing behavior that is directly contrary to its name.