NBCUniversal Settles Defamation Lawsuit Over False Claims About ICE Facility Doctor

The settlement avoids a jury trial after MSNBC hosts were found to have made verifiably false statements about Dr. Mahendra Amin.

NBCUniversal has settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Dr. Mahendra Amin, a gynecologist accused in 2020 of performing unnecessary hysterectomies on detained immigrant women at a Georgia ICE facility.
The lawsuit stemmed from MSNBC reports, including those by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes, which labeled Amin as the 'uterus collector' based on unverified whistleblower claims.
A federal judge previously ruled that MSNBC made 39 'verifiably false' statements about Amin, concluding that a jury could find the network acted with actual malice.
Internal NBC documents revealed doubts among reporters about the whistleblower’s allegations, which were nevertheless aired, leading to the lawsuit filed by Amin in 2021.
The settlement, reached before a trial scheduled for April, follows other high-profile defamation cases against media outlets, including CNN and CBS.