143876P.pdf   06/13/2016  Jesse Ventura  v.  Taya Kyle
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  14-3876
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Smith and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Defamation. In action by the former governor of the state of 
   Minnesota against the estate of Chris Kyle, author of American Sniper, 
   alleging Kyle had defamed him by fabricating an incident at a bar in which 
   Kyle claimed to have knocked Ventura to the floor in a fight, the jury's 
   $500,000 award to Ventura on his defamation claim is set aside and 
   remanded for a new trial as the court erred in permitting Ventura to put 
   prejudicial information before the jury by questioning Kyle's publisher 
   regarding insurance and the payment of the estate's legal fees and by 
   arguing these matters in his closing argument; the equitable remedy of 
   undue enrichment was not available to Ventura because there was an 
   adequate remedy at law - money damages for defamation - and the estate was 
   entitled to judgment on the claim; the jury's $1.3 million award on the 
   unjust enrichment claim is vacated. Judge Smith, concurring in the 
   reversal of the unjust-enrichment judgment and dissenting from the 
   reversal of the defamation judgment.