Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer sued Deadspin and former managing editor Chris Baud over three statements on this article from 2021, written a few non permanent restraining order a lady wanted a sexual encounter with Bauer. According to the lady, the intercourse was initially consensual however became a violent sexual assault. Bauer claimed that three statements in our article had been defamatory – that his lawyer didn’t deny he was answerable for her accidents, that the sufferer didn’t consent to having her face crushed and her cranium fractured (we all know), and that it was solely the preliminary CT scan that confirmed a fracture. Bauer alleged that the statements had been false as a result of he didn’t really fracture the sufferer’s cranium and no CT scan ever confirmed a fracture.
But the Honorable Judge Paul A. Crotty of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York disagreed with Bauer’s claims, granting Deadspin’s movement to dismiss Bauer’s lawsuit with prejudice.
In a 16-page opinion, Crotty acknowledged that Deadspin didn’t considerably misrepresent the lady’s claims in opposition to Bauer. Crotty additional wrote:
“The Petition and accompanying medical records indicate that, following (the woman’s’) encounter with Bauer, a doctor — (not the woman) herself — diagnosed her with “significant head and facial trauma” and signs of a basilar cranium fracture, together with “racoon eyes” and a “Battle’s sign,” that are observable indicators of a possible fracture … Those signs weren’t merely ‘self-reported,’ however based mostly on a doctor’s preliminary examination and commentary of (the lady). This signifies that the true bridge between the contested Statements — (Bauer) fractured (the lady’s) cranium as recognized by an preliminary CT scan-and actuality — (Bauer) brought about (the lady) facial trauma that a physician initially recognized as signs of a cranium fracture — is sufficiently small to render the ‘gist’ or ‘sting’ of the statements unchanged.”
Crotty continued, “Whether those injuries included a skull fracture or simply ‘significant head and facial trauma’ and bruising does not change the nature of the accusations, nor would it produce a different effect on the mind of the reader.”
Here’s the place we level out that the headline within the piece that bought Bauer so fired up mentioned he ought to by no means pitch in MLB once more. So far, he hasn’t.
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