Nov. 26, 2014 10:40pm Jason Howerton
A judge rejected a request made by Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s widow to order a new trial or throw out a jury’s verdict in the controversial defamation lawsuit filed by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.
Ventura was ultimately awarded $1.8 million in the lawsuit, which alleged Kyle lied about punching Ventura after the former governor said Navy SEALs “deserve to lose a few” in Iraq while they were both at a California bar in 2006.
Ventura alleged the altercation never happened and pursued the lawsuit even after Kyle was shot and killed in February of 2013.
Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, has been forced to fight the lawsuit aimed at her late husband.
However, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that there was “substantial evidence” to support the jury’s verdict in favor of Ventura and rejected the bid for a new trial or dismissal of the lawsuit.
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