{"id":141010,"date":"2020-07-06T21:18:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T04:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=141010"},"modified":"2020-07-07T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:27:20","slug":"steve-wynn-suit-against-ap-could-get-new-life-at-nevada-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/steve-wynn-suit-against-ap-could-get-new-life-at-nevada-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Wynn Defamation Suit Against Associated Press Could Get Lifeline in Nevada Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Wynn’s defamation claim against the Associated Press <\/i>and one of the wire service’s reporters — which was dismissed by Clark County District Court Judge Ronald Israel nearly two years ago — could be resuscitated in the Supreme Court of Nevada.<\/p>\n

\"Steve
Steve Wynn is betting the Nevada Supreme Court will allow his defamation suit against the Associated Press to proceed. (Image: New York Post)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Monday, seven justices heard arguments by videoconference from Wynn’s counsel, Todd Bice; and Chad Bowman, representing the AP<\/i>. Bice claims that a February 2018 article written by reporter Regina Garcia Cano didn’t paint the entire picture of one woman’s \u201cfantastical\u201d claims against Wynn. The article was written at the height of a sexual misconduct scandal <\/a>that eventually led to the gaming mogul’s ouster from the company he founded<\/p>\n

The earlier appeal from the district court as urged by the Associated Press<\/i> sets a wildly dangerous standard if it is allowed to stand as the law in the state of Nevada,\u201d said Bice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2018, Israel dismissed the suit against the news service but ruled accuser Halina Kuta defamed Wynn with \u201ctotally fanciful\u201d claims, levying a $1 judgment against her \u2013- the amount in damages sought by the former gaming scion.<\/p>\n

Wild Accusations, Enhanced Defamation<\/h2>\n

Kuta’s accusations against Wynn ran the gamut of absurdity, spanning from her claim<\/a> to being the inspiration for Pablo Picasso\u2019s \u201cLe Reve\u201d \u2014 a painting that Wynn owns \u2014 even though she was born 10 years after the work of art was completed, to asserting that she, not Wynn’s ex-wife Elaine, is the biological mother of the former gaming executive’s daughter, Kevyn.<\/p>\n

Wynn’s original suit against the AP <\/i>claimed the news organization reported Kuta’s allegations as credible. One of Kuta’s contentions was that Wynn sexually assaulted her in Chicago in the early 1970s and that she birthed their progeny in a gas station restroom.<\/p>\n

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Bice, the plaintiff’s attorney, said that because Kuta never gave birth to Wynn’s offspring, there’s not a real child, casting doubt upon the corroboration and the rape allegation as a whole. The lawyer also took issue with the AP’s <\/i>policy that any statement taken by the police, even if it’s just a courtesy statement unless it’s discarded in the trash, is an official government document.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe question for the court is very simple,\u201d <\/strong>said Bice. \u201cWas the defamation enhanced … by what the AP omitted in its reporting? The answer to that is absolutely yes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Truth Be Told<\/span><\/h2>\n

Bowman, counsel for the <\/span>AP, <\/i>said the article in question was reported fairly and that \u201cit simply didn\u2019t use the verbatim words from the police report.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He went on to say a filing of a complaint starts the proceeding and \u201cthe reality is people understand the difference between the complaint and proof.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wynn, 78, departed his roles as chairman and chief executive officer of the company bearing his name in February 2018 and has been contending with an array of civil litigation <\/a>related to alleged sexual misdeeds since then.<\/p>\n

The Nevada Supreme Court did not issue a ruling on the fate of Wynn’s action against the AP<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Wynn’s defamation claim against the Associated Press and one of the wire service’s reporters — which was dismissed by Clark County District Court Judge Ronald Israel nearly two years ago — could be resuscitated in the Supreme Court of Nevada. 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