A judge on Friday declined to dismiss a $750 million defamation lawsuit filed against CBS by Burke Ramsey, brother of slain 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.
A circuit court judge in Michigan denied a motion filed by CBS, which asked that the case be dismissed, the Boulder Daily Camera reported.
In a separate ruling, the judge also denied a request that Burke Ramsey’s $150 million case against Werner Spitz, a pathologist who participated in the CBS series, be tossed, the newspaper reported.
Burke Ramsey, 30, sued CBS in December over a two-part docu-series, “The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey,” which his lawsuit says was “false and defamatory.” The series aired Sept. 18-19, 2016.
Ramsey’s suit states: “The gist of ‘The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey’ is that JonBenet’s brother, Burke Ramsey, killed his six-year-old sister ……
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