Patrick Reed isn’t getting a billion dollars. Rather, he’s on the hook for legal costs for 18 various individuals and business. (Photo by Yu Chun Christopher Wong/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images) Patrick Reed’s venture into the U.S. court system has actually led to a double bogey. The combative LIV Golf gamer was purchased by a federal judge Friday to pay the legal costs of the accuseds in his series of disparagement suits, which had actually been looking for an overall of more than $1 billion in damages. Those claims, submitted versus 18 reporters and wire service consisting of Golf Channel and its expert Brandel Chamblee, had actually currently been dismissed by U.S. district judge Timothy Corrigan. Reed had actually declared the variety of voices had actually been disparaging him given that he was 23 years of ages with the objective to “ruin his track record” in such a way that expense him “multi-million dollar sponsorship offers” and resulted him being “ended” by the PGA Tour. Corrigan dismissed those claims with bias in September, composing “While Reed might be annoyed at the unfavorable media protection he gets (a few of which appears over the top), under Florida law and the First Amendment, Reed stops working to bring actionable character assassination claims and his cases for that reason should be dismissed.” In his choice Saturday, Corrigan ruled the offenders were entitled to an award lawyer’s costs under Florida’s anti-SLAPP statute, a law developed to dissuade utilizing the legal system as a way of bugging one’s opponents and critics. Corrigan specified that Reed “brought no practical libel claims in his initial and Amended Complaint” which his claims were “brought mostly since Defendants worked out the constitutional right of totally free speech in their publications about Reed as a public figure.” Corrigan likewise rejected movements by Reed asking for the judge’s recusal and to reevaluate his termination of the suit. It stays to be seen if this is Reed’s end of the world in a legal legend that was among the wildest subplots in the fight in between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. Reed leapt from the previous to the latter in June 2022, at a time when any gamer who made such a relocation dealt with a gush of criticism for taking Saudi Arabian cash. While some gamers attempted to ignore such criticism and others actively contested it, Reed was the only one who was so incensed he attempted to take critics to court. He even noted a string of individual attacks he had actually heard while playing– allegedly due to the fact that of the supposed character assassination– such as “You f *** ing suck” and “You cheat in college and on trip and you’re a piece of s ***.”
Patrick Reed bought to pay legal charges for offenders in dismissed $1 billion claim
