SF gay man drops woman from libel suit
Gay San Francisco health advocate Gary McCoy has dropped one of the defendants in the $1.9 million lawsuit he filed May 9 after she reposted a Twitter meme accusing McCoy of murdering 1,500 people at the Tenderloin Linkage Center.
He is still suing the alleged source of the offending tweet, an individual who goes by what is assumed to be a pseudonym, Karl Brandt, although that person's identity has not yet been confirmed.
The civil lawsuit, filed at San Francisco Superior Court, named personal finance guru Erica Sandberg, who has appeared on air as a personal finance expert at San Francisco-based KRON-4 and is a regular contributor to U.S.
News and World Report, after she retweeted on April 18 the meme about McCoy, vice president of policy and public affairs at HealthRIGHT 360, a California-based health conglomerate. (McCoy is also a co-chair of the Alice B.
