Free Speech

Eugene Volokh | 12.23.2025 8:33 AM

This one is over a book (Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope) by one of the winners of a Time Magazine 2025 Earth Award, "environmental justice" activist Catherine Coleman Flowers.  For another recent suit over the same allegations in a different book, see Libel Lawsuit over Critical Race Theory Book That Accused Doctor of "Mass Hysterectomies".  For a decision in favor of Dr. Amin against NBCUniversal, see Judge Concludes NBC's Allegations of "Mass Hysterectomies" by Doctor at ICE Facility Were False, May Have Been Knowingly/Recklessly False.

From the Complaint in Amin v. Spiegel & Grau LLC (S.D.N.Y.), the passage from the essay in the book:

On September 14, 2020, in a footnote to President Donald Trump's unconscionable treatment of migrants, a nurse named Dawn Wooten, who worked at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla,........

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