Judge Lets Lawsuit Against HuffPost Over Story About Kavanaugh’s Past Proceed

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh speaks at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27, 2018. Michael Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images

A federal judge is letting a defamation lawsuit against the Huffington Post proceed.

Derrick Evans, a black professor and community activist who lives in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 2019 sued the website and Ashley Feinberg, a writer, for writing and publishing a story that claimed he and his brother helped procure drugs that led to the death of a man in Florida.