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You are the owner of this article.Frank Scurlock, the eccentric businessman who ran a longshot race for New Orleans mayor and more recently announced he was running for president of the United States, has filed a lawsuit against the owners of The Times-Picayune and The Advocate as well as a former Picayune reporter.The suit alleges that The Times-Picayune in April 2018 published a story that falsely stated Scurlock had been arrested in California a year earlier. The story, by reporter Kevin Litten, stated that Scurlock that day had pleaded no contest to a charge of “lewd and dissolute conduct” – a charge that was based on an Uber driver’s complaint that Scurlock had masturbated in the backseat of her car.The lawsuit does not discuss or dispute the specifics of that incident, instead focusing on the newspaper’s use of the word “arrest” and asserting that he was never arrested. The allegation that he was arrested “is injurious to Scurlock’s personal and&nbsp;professional reputation,” the suit says.New Orleans mayoral candidate Frank Scurlock was picked up on a charge of public masturbation after police say he was found with his pants pul…The lawsuit, which seeks damages, names as defendants Georges Media Group LLC and Capital City Press LLC, the entities that have owned The Times-Picayune and its affiliated website, since mid-2019. Litten is also named as a defendant.Scurlock, who is not a lawyer, is representing himself in the suit, which was filed in Civil District Court on June 13.© Copyright 2020 , 840 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA&nbsp;| &nbsp;|Powered by from .

You are the owner of this article.Frank Scurlock, the eccentric businessman who ran a longshot race for New Orleans mayor and more recently announced he was running for president of the United States, has filed a lawsuit against the owners of The Times-Picayune and The Advocate as well as a former Picayune reporter.The suit alleges that The Times-Picayune in April 2018 published a story that falsely stated Scurlock had been arrested in California a year earlier. The story, by reporter Kevin Litten, stated that Scurlock that day had pleaded no contest to a charge of “lewd and dissolute...

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