Iowa federal judge tosses Devin Nunes defamation case against reporter

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A federal judge in Iowa threw out former California GOP Congressman Devin Nunes' defamation suit against political reporter Ryan Lizza on Tuesday, the latest of multiple setbacks the four-year-old case has suffered.

Nunes has pursued a legal vendetta against Lizza, currently Politico's chief Washington correspondent, and his former employer Hearst Magazines since September 2019. The case stems from a September 2018 article Lizza wrote for Esquire Magazine in which he detailed his investigation into the Nunes' family dairy farm in Iowa, and the broader dairy industry's dependency on undocumented labor.

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