"The Supreme Court will not wade into a defamation battle between a prominent climate scientist and conservative groups that compared the scientist to a convicted child molester.
Justices for the nation's highest court today declined to take up a pair of cases, National Review Inc. and Competitive Enterprise Institute v. Michael Mann, over the objections of Justice Samuel Alito.
"A question of this nature deserves a place on our docket," the conservative justice wrote in his dissent.
The case made headlines for its unusual mix of climate science and First Amendment issues, centered on a 2012 blog post that accused climate scientist Michael Mann of fudging the science around his seminal "hockey stick" graph."
Jennifer Hijazi and Pamela King report for Greenwire November 25, 2019.
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