Raymond 'Shoe-Do' Lewis lodges defamation lawsuit against Rosalind Bobb
IBERIA PARISH, La. (KLFY) -- Iberia Parish School Board Member Raymond "Shoe-Do" Lewis has filed a defamation lawsuit against New Iberia District 2 Councilwoman candidate Rosalind Bobb, who he claims has been slandering his name on social media for weeks.
J. Quentin Simon, an attorney representing Lewis, said Bobb has defamed his client on her personal social media accounts with false claims of drug use and thievery. Simon said the claims are a malicious intent to attack his client's character.
"It's been documented in some of the posts that Ms. Bobb's has put on Facebook that he has suffered some harm to his reputation and whatnot," Simon said.
Simon said there are some limits to freedom of speech.
"You can't go and just recklessly, maliciously make false statements about somebody that impugns their character and affects their reputation in the community," Simon said.
While Lewis and Bobb are running for different political positions in Iberia Parish, Simon said these claims can and are already hindering Lewis's race to become the new parish assessor. This is why they decided to act fast on the lawsuit.
"It was important to Mr. Lewis that we hurry up and get something done so that we could stop the hemorrhage, so to speak, stop the damage from continuing any longer than it already had been," the attorney said.
News 10 reached out to Bobb for a comment, but she refused to provide any response on the lawsuit.
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