Clock Ticking on Doctor’s $30 Million Defamation Trial Against MSNBC #Political
Holding media outlets accountable seems to be a theme in 2025. As NewsBusters previously reported, left-wing MSNBC was staring down a $30 million defamation trial after they allegedly spread lies about a Georgia doctor they labeled “the uterus collector.” The trial is set to begin in late April and is taking place in rural Georgia at the federal courthouse for the Southern District of Georgia in Waycross.
According to Judge Lisa Godbey Wood’s order for the case to go to trial, plaintiff Dr. Mahendra Amin “has presented sufficient evidence that could enable a jury to find actual malice” because of extensive internal communications and notes from MSNBC hosts, producers, reporters, and Standards and Practices folks questioning the report even before going to air.
But while reporters Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley took that reporting to literal prime time, internal discussions at the network showed skepticism of what they were saying: that Dr. Amin, who was working for immigration officials, was doing medically unnecessary hysterectomies on illegal immigrant women.
In an email to Soboroff and Ainsley, the senior deputy of NBCUniversal’s Standards and Practices, Chris Scholl had deep concerns about the validity of the report, evening noting that all the information they had come from one source he admitted had “an agenda”:
As I’ve been mulling, my concern is all we have is a public whistleblower complaint in which she provides no evidence to back up her claims. ICE makes essentially the same point, and it appears a valid one. She has no direct knowledge of what she’s claiming, is unable to name the doctor involved (if I understood correctly), and we are unable to verify any of it or determine whether there really is a story here. Essentially, it boils down to a single source—with an agenda—telling us things we have no basis to believe are true. At the least, we would have to note all of that in our reporting, but then it’s worth asking why we are reporting it in the first place. I think we need more of our own independent reporting before going with this. ICE’s statement alone doesn’t get us there.
Even the hosts (Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes) who eventually ran the story were skeptical of what they were claiming to people. Hayes said the quiet part out loud in that “the reason it went viral” was because it “conjured the worst kind of like Third Reich, . . . sort of . . . Jim Crow, Mississippi Hospital history.”
Essentially, it fit perfectly into the narrative they had painted about the Trump administration and its immigration policies.
Hayes admitted all of that, “is not the case here.”
Judge Wood pointed out that “NBC investigated the whistleblower letter's accusations; that investigation did not corroborate the accusations and even undermined some; NBC republished the letter's accusations anyway.”
Back in July of last year, NBCUniversal lost a bid to have one of Dr. Amin’s expert witnesses thrown out. Dr. Eldridge Bills was being tapped as an expert witness as a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist to give his medical opinion on what NBCUniversal had deemed as unnecessary hysterectomies.
“Dr. Bills reviewed the medical records of 69 individual patients and opines Dr. Amin provided appropriate care and did not perform any unnecessary medical procedures,” wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Benjamin W. Cheesebro with the Southern District of Georgia. “Dr. Bills’s supplemental expert report also helps demonstrate a sufficient connection between his experience and his opinions. Dr. Bills states surgeons routinely recommend surgery as a definitive diagnostic and therapeutic approach.”
Judge Cheesebro found: “Having fully considered the briefing and the record before the Court, I conclude Dr. Bills’s opinions are based on a reliable methodology, in that they are based on sufficient data and the “modalities” he considered are sufficiently discernible.”
With CNN having been found liable for defamation, the stakes are high for the liberal media.
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