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A jury in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has awarded a drag queen over $1.1 billion in damages in a defamation case he brought against a conservative blogger. The jury in Kootenai County District Court found blogger Summer Bushnell guilty of defamation in a unanimous decision, the Coeur D’Alene Press reported Friday. The jurors granted drag queen Eric Posey of Post Falls $926,000 in compensatory damages for alleged defamation and an extra $250,000 in punitive damages after finding Bushnell made claims with “reckless disregard” for truth, knowing that her statements were not true, the newspaper reported…

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