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Conservative Group’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Southern Poverty Law Center Will Proceed, Judge Rules

The lawsuit alleges the center unfairly labeled an anti-illegal immigration group as a ‘hate group’ similar to the Ku Klux Klan.

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A pair of migrant families pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Arizona. Record numbers of Cubans have been arriving at the border this year. AP/Eugene Garcia, file
CLARA PREVE DURRIEU
CLARA PREVE DURRIEU

A defamation lawsuit against an Alabama-based civil rights organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, will move forward after a federal judge refused to dismiss a complaint that the center unfairly lumped an immigration reform advocacy group in with extremists such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis.

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CLARA PREVE DURRIEU
CLARA PREVE DURRIEU

Ms. Preve Durrieu is a bilingual journalist who has reported from several countries including Australia and India. She has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in social communications from Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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