A San Francisco Superior Court judge will throw out a lawsuit that accused comedian Jay Leno of defaming a woman. Marilyn Drake became an unwitting target during a segment making fun of newspapers due to her appearance in a photo for a New York Times story about ovum donation. A lawyer at NBC Universal argued that while humor isn't automatically immune from a defamation claim, the test is whether a reasonable person would have taken a joke as fact, a point that the judge seized on in his ruling.
June 19, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A San Francisco Superior Court judge will throw out a lawsuit that accused comedian Jay Leno of defaming a woman.
Judge James Warren said reasonable people, even having only flipped through Leno’s “Tonight Show” briefly, would not have concluded Leno was accusing the plaintiff of having sex with a dog.
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