Iraq vet’s lawsuit is thrown out

A U.S. federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by an Iraq war veteran who claimed filmmaker Michael Moore used the veteran’s image without permission in the antiwar documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

According to court papers, Judge Douglas Woodlock of U.S. District Court in Massachusetts dismissed the suit last week. It had sought $35 million in damages from Moore, as well as Miramax, which is owned by Walt Disney Co. and several other film companies.

The film showed Iraq war veteran Sgt. Peter Damon, who had lost his right arm near the shoulder and much of his left arm, lying in a hospital gurney at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, saying that he feels pain but that painkillers given him “take a lot of the edge” off of it.

The video clip was originally used by NBC Nightly News for a story about medical treatment for veterans.