Strange Bedfellows In Another Fox News Lawsuit

A former Fox executive has filed a lawsuit against Fox News and its current CEO, Suzanne Scott. Plaintiff Laurie Luhn had a long career at Fox and was for a time senior director of corporate and special events  According to the complaint, Scott knew Ailes had harassed Fox employees, including Luhn herself, and that by denying she was aware of it, Scott “defamed, smeared and discredited Plaintiff Luhn by calling her a liar and creating the false implication that Plaintiff Luhn fabricated sexual assault allegations against Ailes.” Luhn is being represented by attorney Larry Klayman, who has been a fixture on the margins of public policy litigation for years, filing hundreds of lawsuits, including more than a dozen against the Clinton administration and one lawsuit, in 2014, alleging that President Obama (“likely born in the African nation of Kenya”) was supporting international terrorism by allowing immigration of people from countries suffering an Ebola outbreak. Klayman himself was the plaintiff in that lawsuit, which maintained that Obama’s immigration policies were furthering the interests of “Africans and Muslims at the expense of Plaintiff and the rest of the American people who are not of the African-black race or Islamic religion.” Back in the day Klayman was, in his words, one of the darlings of Fox News, and in visits to New York could just show up at Fox News headquarters and “literally walk into the office of Roger Ailes.” The Luhn lawsuit asks for  an amount to be determined at trial and in excess of $120 million, plus attorney fees.