West Virginia’s greatest court has actually thrown out disparagement and associated claims lodged by a previous Democratic state senator versus a Republican senator who ran an advertisement including parts of the Democrat’s Facebook video in which he slammed police authorities and stated to a district attorney, “I want cancer upon you!”
While running in 2020 for state Senate, Rupert Phillips, a Republican politician, utilized soundbites from a 23-minute video previous Sen. Richard Ojeda published in September 2020 in which Ojeda “revealed his frustration with the way in which Logan County[, West Virginia,] authorities managed the criminal case versus a guy who physically attacked him in 2016,” according to the viewpoint from most of justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.