In October 2017, after serving nine years in a Nevada prison for robbery, O. J. Simpson, the famed football player acquitted of double murder in 1995, took up residence in a Las Vegas golfing community. Shortly after his prison release, O. J. Simpson and two of his friends were having drinks at the Cosmopolitan Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas. The men were asked to leave the premises for allegedly being drunk and disruptive. Following the incident, the Cosmopolitan issued the 72-year-old Simpson a trespass notice that prohibited him from returning to the establishment.
A member of the Cosmopolitan staff publicized the O. J. Simpson banning by alerting the celebrity website TMZ.
Simpson, who insisted that he had not been drunk and disruptive, and therefore did not deserve to be banned from the Cosmopolitan, filed a civil defamation suit against the hotel-casino in which he claimed that the publication of the incident had caused "tangible damage to his reputation."
Attorneys for the hotel-casino argued that O. J. Simpson was a public person who had a reputation of being a robber and a man who had murdered two people. In other words, O. J. Simpson didn't have a reputation to defame. The defendant also requested that the case be handled by private arbitration.
On January 20, 2020, a pretrial commissioner (lower court magistrate) ruled that the Simpson lawsuit could go forward in a Clark County District Court.
A member of the Cosmopolitan staff publicized the O. J. Simpson banning by alerting the celebrity website TMZ.
Simpson, who insisted that he had not been drunk and disruptive, and therefore did not deserve to be banned from the Cosmopolitan, filed a civil defamation suit against the hotel-casino in which he claimed that the publication of the incident had caused "tangible damage to his reputation."
Attorneys for the hotel-casino argued that O. J. Simpson was a public person who had a reputation of being a robber and a man who had murdered two people. In other words, O. J. Simpson didn't have a reputation to defame. The defendant also requested that the case be handled by private arbitration.
On January 20, 2020, a pretrial commissioner (lower court magistrate) ruled that the Simpson lawsuit could go forward in a Clark County District Court.
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