A federal judge has tossed out a Democratic activist's defamation and conspiracy lawsuit against current andformer Interior Department officials.In the latest turn of an unusual series of events, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta yesterday dismissed activistWilfred Michael Stark III's claims targeting former Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift and current Interior officialAmanda Kaster-Averill, among others.Stark contended that Swift and Kaster-Averill, who is currently the Bureau of Land Management's acting chief ofstaff, defamed him with "wildly inaccurate, maliciously false" statements following a run-in with then-InteriorSecretary Ryan Zinke.
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机译：联邦法官已经放弃了民主党激进分子对现任和前内政部官员的诽谤和阴谋诉讼。在最近的一系列不寻常事件中，美国地方法官阿米特·梅塔（Amit Mehta）驳回了激进主义者威尔弗雷德·迈克尔·斯塔克三世（Wilfred Michael Stark III）针对前内政发言人希瑟·斯威夫特（Heather Swift）和斯塔克争辩说，斯威夫特和卡斯特·阿弗里尔（目前是美国土地管理局的幕僚长）诽谤他，称其为“完全不准确，恶意的虚假”陈述，随后与当时内政部长瑞安·辛克（Ryan Zinke）。
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