Prince Harry’s Bid to Include Rupert Murdoch, Piers Morgan in Phone Hacking Lawsuit Rejected by Judge
variety.comK.J. Yossman Prince Harry’s bid to include claims against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and broadcaster Piers Morgan has been rejected by London’s High Court.
Harry – along with more than 40 other plaintiffs – is suing Murdoch’s U.K. newspaper business News Group Newspapers over claims of phone hacking and unlawful news gathering.
The plaintiffs had applied to amend their lawsuit to include new claims against Murdoch and Morgan, who worked for the now-defunct NGN newspaper News of the World in the mid-1990s, claiming Murdoch new about unlawful activity at his newspapers as far back as 2004.
NGN has vociferously disputed this. Now a judge has said claims against Murdoch would effectively amount to a new lawsuit and cannot be folded into the current litigation.
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