Get it?” He also expressed a hope that Doe died “screaming my name.”
If you die, I’ll follow you to the bowels of Hell. Then, after someone replied noting that Woods had been “victorious” because his adversary had died, Woods tweeted (and later deleted), “Learn this. “The slime who libeled me just dropped his appeal contesting my victorious SLAPP motion,” he tweeted.
Doe appealed that decision, but subsequently died, causing White to withdraw the appeal. The judge denied that motion in February, meaning the case could continue. Doe’s lawyer, Ken White (who writes about legal and free-speech issues under the pen name Popehat on his website and on Twitter), filed an anti- SLAPP motion seeking the case’s dismissal, arguing that “cocaine addict” was “a constitutionally protected political insult” in a Twitter context and shouldn’t be viewed as a statement of fact - especially given that Woods had used similarly inflammatory language to insult others on the social-media platform. But apparently he underestimated Woods’s obsessive desire for vengeance.įirst, Woods famously responded to List’s ridicule by suing the tweeter for defamation, seeking $10 million in damages against “John Doe,” as he was named in the suit. When “Abe List,” an anonymous Twitter user, called James Woods a “cocaine addict” on the social-media service back in July of 2015, he probably didn’t realize that he was starting a legal fight with the Hollywood star that would follow him not only to the grave but beyond it.
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