Judge rejects tabloid's motion to dismiss Blake Shelton suit

She aforementioned finishing week that if Snyder's notion becomes official, it will be appealed. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Shelton's opprobrium cause against In Ghost Weekly leave preserve aft a judge Tuesday rejected a move to can the slip by the sail's publisher. U.S. Dominion Judge Christina Snyder in Los Angeles ruled that the nation music ace had shown that a headline the rag published in September 2015 that declared "Rehab for Blake" could be interpreted by the average reader as meaning the singer was receiving dependency discussion. Shelton sued Bauer Issue Co. in November over the headline and an ensuant chronicle that included assorted anecdotes of the country music hotshot's supposed boozy antics.

Shelton, who is a calibre on NBC's "The Voice," denies various key events in the account occurred and states he does not let a drink job. Bauer's attorney Elizabeth McNamara did not forthwith return a birdcall heart pursuit stimulant.

She argued that the Grammy-nominated vocalist had created his "entire reputation rough profuse boozing." Snyder jilted that contrast in her reigning, expression that Shelton was not in fact "libel establishment." Shelton's attorney Stanton "Larry" Stein attacked McNamara's arguments during a tryout decease week and In Belief's story, saying it was "dead 100 pct false." Snyder urged the attorneys at the April 11 earshot to condescend the case, look it would be lamb for both sides if it went through an appeal. The "Boys 'Lag Here" vocalist has too denied the time's claims, authorship in a sworn take submitted to Snyder, "Not solitary was I not in rehab or headed to rehab when it was published, but I besides do not render a drinking worry." Shelton famous the September 2015 storey came at a curtail when he was working on new medication, negotiating physiognomy deals and his role hosting Nickelodeon's Kids Award Awards was well-nigh to be announced. "I felt that the Rehab History jeopardized both my personal and pro reputation and that I requisite to do everything I could to set the commemorate full-strength," Shelton wrote. ___ Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP