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Actress Roseanne Barr acknowledges making a Twitter post listing the address and telephone number of George Zimmerman's parents, but is asking a judge to throw out their lawsuit against her in part because the information was readily available in public records.

Barr's attorneys said in a motion to dismiss the suit this week that Barr only "retweeted" another post in March 2012, and almost immediately removed it.

Robert and Gladys Zimmerman filed the lawsuit last month. Barr's attorneys say the Zimmerman's regarding invasion of privacy is barred by the First Amendment, which protects statements made about public figures on matters of public concern.

The Zimmermans say they had to flee their home after Barr posted their information about a month after their son, George, fatally shot Trayvon Martin in 2012.

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Roseanne Barr wants Zimmerman parents' lawsuit dismissed

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Actress Roseanne Barr acknowledges making a Twitter post listing the address and telephone number of George Zimmerman's parents, but is asking a judge to throw out their lawsuit against her in part because the information was readily available in public records.

Barr's attorneys said in a motion to dismiss the suit this week that Barr only "retweeted" another post in March 2012, and almost immediately removed it.

Robert and Gladys Zimmerman filed the lawsuit last month.

Barr's attorneys say the Zimmermans' invasion of privacy claim is barred by the First Amendment, which protects statements made about public figures on matters of public concern.

The Zimmermans say they had to flee their home after Barr posted the information about a month after their son, George, fatally shot Trayvon Martin in 2012.

George Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter in July 2013.

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George Zimmerman's parents are picking a court fight with Roseanne Barr.

The entertainer admitted in a court filing this week that she had posted the address of Robert and Gladys Zimmerman on Twitter during the heated controversy over whether their son should have shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin two years ago.

The Zimmermans contend that her tweet forced them to flee because media and protesters descended on their neighborhood. Barr had 110,000 Twitter followers at the time, their lawsuit says.

Barr argued in a legal filingMonday that she was actually trying to tell someone who had originally posted the address to delete it. In any case, the address was publicly available in property records and online databases, Barrs attorneys wrote. She deleted her tweet within seconds, she said.

Barr later posted on Twitter, according to the lawsuit: At first I thought it was good to let [people] know that no one can hide anymore" and "if Zimmerman isn't arrested I'll [retweet] his address again -- maybe go 2 his house myself.

George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter by a Seminole County jury last July.

His parents filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fla. They are seeking at least $75,000 in damages for the costs and emotional distress they say they endured by having to hide.

The Zimmermans say they havent been able to live in their $186,000 home in Lake Mary, Fla., since Barrs tweet on March 29, 2012.

The Orlando Sentinel reported in 2012 that Robert Zimmerman told the paper that they were in hiding two weeks before Barrs controversial Twitter post, which came a month after the fatal shooting.

Barr wants the lawsuit dismissed. She contends that she did nothing wrong by momentarily sharing what someone else had posted, that the Zimmermans were public figures, and that the Zimmermans don't allege that she disclosed private facts.

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Robert and Gladys Zimmerman, the parents of George Zimmerman, filed suit in the Florida State Circuit Court in Sanford, Florida against Roseanne Barr. They allege that they were forced to leave their home and go into hiding because Barr tweeted their home address. The Zimmermans accuse Barr of violating their privacy and intentionally inflicting emotional distress and are seeking unspecified damages.

Robert Sr. and Gladys Zimmerman

Two weeks ago, the case was transferred from the state circuit court to the

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Orlando federal court and assigned to U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell.

Some of you might remember that I predicted that would be Barrs attorneys first move because of diversity. Barr resides in Hawaii and the Zimmermans in Florida.

George Zimmerman is the man who killed unarmed 17-year old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. By claiming Floridas stand your ground, he avoided charges and arrest. The governor of Florida appointed States Attorney Angela Corey to investigate and in April 2012, George was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

In July 2013, a jury of 5 White women and 1 Hispanic woman found George not guilty. The Honorable Judge Debra Nelson, who presided over the murder trial, did not allow the initial aggressor part of self-defense law to be included in the jury instructions, although she included the no duty to retreat portion of stand your ground law in those instructions.

The Department of Justice still has an open investigation on whether George violated Trayvons civil rights.

The lawsuit alleges that on March 28, Barr tweeted the home address for Robert Sr. and Gladys Zimmerman, forcing them to flee their home in the middle of the night and go into hiding. However, in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel published March 15, 2012, Robert Sr. told the Orlando Sentinel that he and his wife were already living in hiding. Barr acknowledged in papers filed with the court that she tweeted the Zimmermans address, and that she deleted that tweet as soon as she realized it went out to all followers rather than only the person she intended.

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Yeah, I tweeted the address of George Zimmerman's parents, Roseanne Barr acknowledged in court paperwork this week, and now the comedienne has hired five lawyers to help her fight a lawsuit they filed against her.

On Monday, those lawyers filed paperwork asking an Orlando federal judge to throw out the suit filed last month by Robert Zimmerman Sr. and Gladys Zimmerman, who accuse Barr of violating their privacy and intentionally inflicting emotional distress.

Barr did post their address on Twitter on March 28 or 29, 2012, she and her lawyers concede, but it an accident she meant to reply to just one person, they wrote.

"i was actually going2 tweet the person who sent it2 me& tell them to take it down! But i hit retweet instead. Deletd in 5 sec," she wrote March 29, according to paperwork filed with the court.

Even though she published their Lake Mary address and phone number, her lawyers wrote, she's not liable for damages because she was merely putting out facts that were widely available elsewhere, including in the phone book, on the Internet and from the Seminole County Property Appraiser.

"Anyone could find them in the phone book or by conducting an Internet search," according to the defense motion.

In their suit, the Zimmermans allege that after Barr tweeted their address, they were forced to flee their home in the middle of the night and live in hiding.

But that does not jibe with what Robert Zimmerman Sr. told the Orlando Sentinel in an interview two weeks earlier, on March 15, 2012. He said then that he and his wife were already living in hiding.

On that date their son, Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman, had not yet been arrested, accused of murdering Trayvon Martin, a black 17-year-old.

A Seminole County jury acquitted George Zimmerman last year.

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