A Philadelphia judge’s defamation suit alleging he was cast as a corrupt villain in a book about the criminal trial of infamous abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has been removed to federal court.
Lawyers for defendant Pennsylvania Media Associates—an operator of in-state radio stations that Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart claims conspired with the book’s publisher to market its alleged defamatory account of him in “Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer”—said putting the case in front of a federal judge was necessary so that it would not be tried in Minehart’s home court.
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