The country watched a Hollywood defamation trial unfold live on social media: actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, suing each other in a courtroom broadcast around the world, every text message and interview picked apart for proof of who lied about whom.
Three years later they are no cameras and few local news outlets have picked up the story of a city councilman fighting off two of his own defamation lawsuits.
The local politician has lost every legal effort to make either case disappear. Court records call at least two of those efforts meritless…