Judge throws out Armstrong lawsuit
AUSTIN, TEXAS: A federal judge threw out Lance Armstrong’s anti-doping lawsuit today, just hours after the championship cyclist filed the suit to begin with.
The judge ‘laughed in the cyclists face’ after Armstrong claimed that this entire fiasco was an attempt to ‘hype up publicity around the case’.
This court is not inclined to indulge Armstrong’s desire for publicity, self-aggrandizement, or vilification of defendants, by sifting through 80 mostly unnecessary pages in search of the few kernels of factual material relevant to his claims,” the judge wrote, adding that “contrary to Armstrong’s apparent belief,” court filings are not “press releases, internet blogs or pieces of investigative journalism.” He gave Armstrong 20 days to refile the lawsuit without “any improper argument, rhetoric, or irrelevant material.”
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