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   A lawyer for the family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan said Thursday   
   that a new version of a lawsuit accusing actor Alec Baldwin of unleashing   
   his social media followers against them will soon be filed after a federal   
   judge dismissed the original lawsuit but invited the family to rewrite it   
   and submit it again.   
      
   Attorney Dennis Postiglione, representing the sisters and widow of Lance   
   Cpl. Rylee McCollum, said he’ll meet a Sept. 12 deadline set by the judge   
   to renew allegations that Baldwin subjected family members to online   
   threats and harassment after he posted and commented on a photo shared   
   online by one of McCollum’s sisters, Roice McCollum, who had been in   
   Washington during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.   
      
   Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum was killed at age 20 during a suicide attack at   
   the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 26, 2021.   
      
   Earlier this week, Judge Edgardo Ramos in Manhattan dismissed the family’s   
   defamation lawsuit, which sought $25 million in damages, but he invited a   
   refiling of the lawsuit to correct deficiencies and renew claims of   
   defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.   
      
   In tossing out the original lawsuit, Ramos made various conclusions in   
   Baldwin’s favor, including that his comments were protected by the First   
   Amendment, that actual malice was not sufficiently alleged and that   
   private messages, comments and social media posts did not support   
   defamation claims.   
      
   Daughter born to widow of Marine killed in Afghanistan bombing   
      
   Postiglione said in an email that a rewritten lawsuit will be filed by the   
   deadline that will address issues the judge raised.   
      
   He added, “Without getting into specifics, we disagree with the analysis   
   by the Court but believe an amended Complaint will address the issues   
   presented.”   
      
   Baldwin had donated $5,000 to the family after learning of the death of   
   Rylee McCollum in Afghanistan, just weeks before his daughter was born.   
   Baldwin had contacted Roice McCollum via Instagram, according to the   
   lawsuit.   
      
   In January 2022, Baldwin saw that Roice McCollum posted a picture of   
   demonstrators from former President Donald Trump’s rally taken on the day   
   Congress counted the Electoral College votes from the 2020 presidential   
   election, the lawsuit said.   
      
   Baldwin told Roice McCollum he would share her photo with his 2.4 million   
   Instagram followers and wrote: “Good luck,” according to the lawsuit.   
      
   Roice McCollum said in the lawsuit that she “did not take part in, nor did   
   she support or condone the rioting that erupted” at the Capitol, and was   
   cleared of any wrongdoing after meeting with the FBI.   
      
   A lawyer for Baldwin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/slain-marine-family-plans-refile-143830979.html   
      
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