According to BoundingIntoComics:
Science fiction novelist Patrick S. Tomlinson, who has described Tucker Carlson and Jordan B. Peterson as Nazis, has not only lost a lawsuit in a defamation case involving an internet forum, but has also been ordered to pay a large sum in attorney’s fees.
Back in April 2021, Tomlinson described a segment from Tucker Carlson tonight on Twitter “as straight Nazi propaganda right from the taps.”
Also in April last year he shared a screenshot of a tweet from Jordan B. Peterson and wrote, “Buddy when your ‘ideas’ seemlessly (sp?) plug-and-play with a Nazi super villain it’s time to have a seat and a long think.”
Judge Ethan P. Schulman of the Superior Court of California in San Francisco County ordered Tomlinson to pay $23,739.25 in attorney’s fees and costs after a John Doe filed a complaint requesting the court quash Tomlinson’s request for a subpoena to Cloudflare Inc, in regards to a lawsuit the science fiction author had filed against 60 John Does in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
