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August 06, 2020
Exclusive: Why Nicholas Sandman’s Lawyer Joined Carter Page’s Lawsuit Team
The Atlanta-based attorney, who represents Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandman, told the Star Newspaper Group he will get justice for his new client, Dr. Carter W. Page in Page’s lawsuit against Yahoo! and the Huffington Post. “They accused him of being a traitor to the United States of America,” said L. Lincoln “Lin”…
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Tennessee Star National Correspondent Neil W. McCabe Details His Recent Interview on Carter Page Acquiring Attorney Lin Wood to His Legal Team
During the second hour, McCabe discussed his recent story at The Star where he interviewed attorney Lin Wood known for the Covington High School case. He explained how Wood decided to help Carter Page in his lawsuit against the claims that he was a Russian spy by joining his legal team.
July 27, 2020
Sandmann’s Lawyer Agrees to Represent Carter Page
Four long years after the FBI and the press tried to ruin him, the former Trump campaign associate might finally get the exoneration—and payday—he deserves.
March 05, 2020
Libel Lawyer Lin Wood Settles Second Defamation Suit With CNN
A defamation case against CNN over its 2015 investigation of infant deaths at a Florida hospital has settled confidentially—the second settlement that Atlanta libel lawyer L. Lin Wood has reached with CNN this year. The Atlanta-based cable news network’s settlement resolves a $30 million libel lawsuit filed by David Carbone, the former CEO of St….
January 23, 2020
Legal Legend Lin Wood – Presentation at Mercer University
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January 17, 2020
Column: L. Lin Wood, libel attorney for Nicholas Sandmann and Richard Jewell, gives out a warning to the media
The other day, as my friend and Tribune colleague Kristen McQueary and I were filling in as hosts on the national broadcast of The Dan Proft Show, we took a call. The caller’s name is L. Lin Wood. He’s a famous libel lawyer from Atlanta who’s been called “The Lawyer for the Damned.”. Wood had…
December 16, 2019
Elon Musk’s private eye rifled through cave hero’s bins to dig up dirt on his private life: Cave hero Vernon Unsworth tells all after losing court battle against Tesla tycoon who called him ‘pedo guy’
Standing at the mouth of the Tham Luang cave system in northern Thailand, it should have been the proudest moment of Vernon Unsworth’s life. Days earlier, the caving expert – known as Vern – had played a crucial role in the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their football coach from rising monsoon waters flooding the…
December 10, 2019
Letter to the Editor: Lawyer for Man Who Sued Musk Claims ‘Justice Worked’ Despite Defense Verdict
“Nothing about Mr. Musk’s comments was factual and anyone who thought otherwise would be ignoring the truth as established in a court of law,” writes L. Lin Wood. I congratulate Elon Musk and the lawyers on his team at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan for their efforts to achieve a verdict for their client that spoke…
November 19, 2019
Elon Musk Ordered to Stand Trial in Cave Explorer’s Defamation Case
A federal judge delivered a pair of legal setbacks to the tech billionaire Elon Musk this week, rejecting Mr. Musk’s attempt to throw out a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a British cave explorer whom Mr. Musk had accused on Twitter of being a “pedo guy.” The judge, Stephen V. Wilson in United States…
October 30, 2019
Elon Musk to go to trial in December over ‘pedo guy’ tweet
Los Angeles district judge ruled jury will decide whether Tesla chief’s statements about British diver amount to defamation. Elon Musk will go to trial in December, after a judge denied his request to throw out a defamation lawsuit by a British man Musk called a “pedo guy”. Los Angeles district judge Stephen Wilson said a…
October 29, 2019
Federal judge reinstates libel lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic teen against Washington Post
A federal judge reinstated part of a lawsuit against The Washington Post filed by the family of a Kentucky teenager that alleged the newspaper libeled the teen in its coverage of his encounter with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial earlier this year. Judge William O. Bertelsman, who rejected the suit in July…
August 14, 2019
“Lin Wood, attorney for Richard Jewell, became reputation specialist after Atlanta bombing case” Interview with 11Alive
The Atlanta-based attorney says Richard Jewell “changed my life” and in the two-plus decades since the 1996 Atlanta bombing case has represented similar high-profile figures who he said were distorted by media coverage, including the MAGA hat-wearing teen, Nick Sandman, whose encounter with a Native American protester in Washington, D.C. earlier this year went viral.
August 12, 2019
“The Media’s Jewell” Podcast
It was becoming clear that security guard Richard Jewell was not the Olympic park bomber. But the man cast, first, as the “hero” and then as the “villain” was still the victim of false accusations, rumors and innuendo which would eventually take their toll on his life. Meanwhile, investigators were still no closer to solving…
March 14, 2019
Nick Sandmann vs Media Giants
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Enter Sandmann: The Lawsuit Against CNN, Levin TV, Facebook, March 13, 2019
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March 11, 2019
Life, Liberty & Levin Show – March 10, 2019
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March 04, 2019
Statement of L. Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry Regarding Nicholas Sandmann and The Washington Post
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2019 STATEMENT OF L. LIN WOOD and TODD MCMURTRY REGARDING NICHOLAS SANDMANN and THE WASHINGTON POST In a span of 3 days beginning on January 19, The Washington Post rushed to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies who falsely attacked, vilified and threatened…
February 11, 2019
Nick Sandmann’s lawyer: ‘Nathan Phillips will be sued’ over lies against Covington boys
One of the attorneys representing Covington High School student Nick Sandmann and his parents confirmed to LifeSiteNews that Native American activist Nathan Phillips, and some of the others who have received notices from the attorneys, “will be sued.” Lin Wood, an Atlanta-based lawyer, told LifeSite yesterday that Phillips’ “lies and false accusations” against Sandmann and the other Covington students are…
February 01, 2019
Nick Sandmann’s Lawyer Goes NUCLEAR, And The Media Is In Big Trouble
The media has largely moved on from their despicable smearing of the students of Covington Catholic with a plethora of fake news stories that put the teens, their families and their school in peril after they were falsely accused of hurling racist slurs at an elderly Native American man. Following the incident which took place…
January 25, 2019
Statement of Attorneys L. Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry On Behalf of Nick Sandmann and His Family
ATLANTA, Jan. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — On January 18, in the span of a few hours, Nick Sandmann’s peaceful attendance with his Covington Catholic classmates at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. was turned into a personal nightmare when Nick became the focus of false and defamatory accusations published and broadcast across the nation…
January 09, 2019
Lin Wood Goes to Bat for Families of JonBenét Ramsey, Natalee Holloway
Atlanta libel lawyer L. Lin Wood said he notched a settlement against one television network and a preliminary win against another over TV specials featuring unsolved crimes—cases that he said should serve as a warning to other media companies. In civil cases associated with two of the most sensational unsolved crime mysteries of the past two decades, Wood…
January 08, 2019
MSNBC’s Joy Reid Faces Call for Deposition About Trump Bias
A Trump supporter argues that Reid has opened the door to a query on whether the television host is predisposed to seeing anyone in a MAGA hat as a racist. A defamation lawsuit against Joy Reid may have avoided one high-stakes legal issue only to raise another. On Monday, Roslyn La Liberte asked a New York…
October 25, 2018
JonBenét Ramsey Family Attorney on Ex-Boulder DA’s Subpoena in CBS Suit
The lawyer for Burke Ramsey, brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in Boulder on Christmas Day 1996, believes that a subpoena issued for former Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter won’t do anything to exonerate CBS in a $750 million lawsuit filed by Burke in December 2016. To the contrary, Atlanta-based attorney Lin Wood thinks…
October 05, 2018
“The shout of guilty is never overcome by the whisper of innocence.”
L. Lin Wood appears on Fox News, October 5, 2018.
September 17, 2018
Elon Musk sued by the cave rescue diver he called a ‘pedo guy’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been sued by the Thai rescue diver he called a “pedo guy” and “child rapist” for libel and slander, according to the lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in California. British cave explorer Vernon Unsworth filed a lawsuit against Musk on Monday for defamation. Unsworth is seeking at least…