False Light
Baltimore Jury Returns Defense Verdict in Public Official Media Defamation Trial
Chad R. Bowman, Maxwell S. Mishkin, and Emmy ParsonsA Baltimore jury returned a defense verdict at the end of a two-week, in-person trial against Sinclair Broadcast Group and its investigative reporter Chris Papst, in a media defamation and false light invasion of privacy case over a series of broadcast news reports.
TOPICS : Defamation, False Light
Connecticut Court Upholds Fair Report Privilege and Anti-SLAPP Law
William S. Fish, Jr. and Alexa MillingerTwo recent Connecticut Appellate Court decisions based on The Hartford Courant’s reporting on a local lawyer’s professional sanctions affirmed the strength of the fair report privilege as a defense to a defamation claim under Connecticut law and also represented the first appellate case decided under the state’s relatively new Anti-SLAPP law.