LINCOLN- Nebraska City business owner Janet Palmtag lost her defamation lawsuit against the state GOP, a Lancaster County District Court judge ruled in a summary judgment. Palmtag is the loser of a GOP-on-GOP race in which the Nebraska GOP accused her of wrongdoing.

District Judge Andrew Jacobsen ruled that Palmtag’s legal team failed to clear the higher bar for public figures alleging defamation, saying they didn’t prove the GOP acted with “actual malice.” Palmtags lawyers plan to appeal the judgment to the state Supreme Court.

The GOP sent ads to southeast Nebraska’s Legislative District 1 saying Palmtag, a licensed real estate agent in Nebraska and formerly Iowa, “broke the law” and “lost her real estate license.” Palmtag testified that she had given up her real estate license in Iowa, but not in Nebraska, and not for disciplinary reasons. She said she did so because she was doing less business in Iowa.

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