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State Rep. Chuck Clemons repeatedly uses the word “frustration” to describe his feelings about the outcome of a more than three-year legal battle over whether he had a right to block a constituent from his social media.
And he has punctuated that sentiment and the case by recently filing papers in federal court that will force that constituent, Peter Morgan Attwood, to pay $2,410 in court costs that are awarded to the prevailing party in cases like this one that are dismissed with prejudice, meaning they can’t be brought back.
A June 7 judgment holds Attwood responsible for the bill for transcriptionists, stenographers and videographers that were used in depositions.
Taxpayers so far have paid $185,000 to attorneys defending Rep. Chuck Clemons in the lawsuit brought against him by a man Clemons blocked from his Twitter account, records show.
And the case, which has dragged on for more than three years, is nowhere close to over as a bench trial has been scheduled in Gainesville for early June.
It’s a case in which both sides are using a First Amendment rights argument.
In February 2018, Gainesville resident Peter Morgan Attwood sued Clemons in federal court.
Clemons, R-Newberry, blocked Attwood on Twitter after Attwood asked the lawmaker to explain a 2018 vote. Clemons’ attorneys have argued that his social media accounts are protected by “legislative immunity.
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