LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas court is dismissing a television station’s
appeal of an order that prohibited it from airing a conservative group’s attack
ad against a state Supreme Court justice during her re-election bid.
The Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed the appeal by Tegna, Inc., which
challenged the ruling preventing several television stations from airing the
Judicial Crisis Network’s ad targeting Justice Courtney Goodson last spring.
Goodson won re-election in November.
Goodson had argued the group’s ad, which criticized her over gifts from donors
and a pay raise the court received, was false and defamatory. A federal judge
had rejected an effort by Goodson to block a similar ad by another outside group
during the fall campaign.
The court on Wednesday said the case was moot since the election has passed.
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