Less than a week ago, U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled that Black Lives Matter cannot be sued because it is a social movement and not a person or formal organization. When the officers bringing the case attempted to add a hashtag to Black Lives Matter, Jackson ruled that a hashtag can't be sued.

This ruling came in response to a police officer’s lawsuit that blamed BLM and DeRay Mckesson for his injuries during a protest.

According to the Philadelphia Tribune, there is another lawsuit pending against BLM brought by a sheriff's deputy wounded in the same protest.

During that protest, which occurred in 2016, a veteran by the name of Gavin Long went on a shooting spree that resulted in the deaths of three officers. Several others were wounded.

Jackson has now said that he intends to dismiss this newest suit as well.

The named defendants are Mckesson and four other BLM leaders, who the suit links to Long's semi-automatic rifle attack.

The lawsuit claims that McKesson was "in charge of" a protest that "turned into a riot."

Jackson, however, has ruled that this claim is "devoid of any facts that tend to demonstrate that any of the named defendants, in particular, are liable for the alleged injuries suffered by plaintiff, even assuming that those defendants have the capacity to be sued.”

The sheriff's deputy's suit was filed by the same attorney who filed the previous suit, Donna Grodner.

Jackson is giving Grodner until October 13 to respond to his decision, and to sufficiently argue why this separate case shouldn’t be dismissed. Jackson declined to comment further about the matter, and wouldn't tell the press if there are plans in the works to appeal the initial dismissal.

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