Brett Favre and his legal team are seemingly doubling-down on their defamation claims against Pat McAfee.
In late March, McAfee filed a motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought against him by the Hall of Fame quarterback because it failed to properly allege McAfee acted with “actual malice.”
Favre’s side responded Saturday, according to The Athletic’s Daniel Wallach, by amending the complaint “to beef up ‘actual malice’ allegations” against the former NFL punter and popular podcaster.
In February, Favre filed lawsuits against McAfee, Fox Sports’ Shannon Sharpe and state auditor Shad White, accusing the trio of defaming him in public discussions about the misspending of welfare money in Mississippi.
Favre claimed McAfee used “outrageous falsehoods,” calling Favre a “thief” who was “stealing from poor people in Mississippi.”
Some of the pages shared by Wallach shed light onto the reasoning Favre is using to add to his case.
“McAfee knew that — or had a high degree of awareness of the fact that — he had no basis for his false statements that Favre had stolen money from poor people,” reads the amended lawsuit. “No media report or anything or anyone else had stated that Favre had stolen any money from anyone. In fact, many of those same reports stated that criminal charges had been brought against certain of the defendants—but not against Favre.”
In total, the amended complaint contains 12 new allegations directed to the crucial issue of “actual malice”.
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