Josh Duggar has lost his lawsuit against In Touch Weekly, Page Six has learned.
The celebrity magazine revealed in 2015 that Duggar was accused of molesting his younger sisters—all of whom starred on the hit “19 Kids and Counting” reality show—in 2006 while Duggar and the women were all minors.
In June of this year, Duggar and his sisters separately sued In Touch’s parent company, Bauer Publishing, claiming that the local police had provided In Touch with their names, even though their identities should have been redacted by the cops before being handed over to the magazine.
Duggars sisters Jill Dillard, Jessa Seewald, Jinger Vuolo and Joy Duggar filed suit in Arkansas in June, and Duggar later joined the suit, making similar claims against the magazine and the police.
But on Thursday an Arkansas district judge booted the case against In Touch, saying the First Amendment protected the magazine because the information it published was true and that, even if the cop broke the law when they provided the Duggars’ unredacted names, In Touch “cannot be held liable for the city’s and county’s failure to follow the law.”
The Duggars dispute with the local authorities is ongoing.
A rep for the magazine declined to comment.