Calling Someone “White Supremacist” Based on Comments in Heated Online Debate Is Opinion, and Thus Not Libel
From Murphy v. Rosendecided yesterday (generally correctly, I think) by Judge Matthew Dallas Gorton (Conn. Superior Ct.): This is a defamation action in which the plaintiff, Sean Murphy, claims that the defendant, Beth Rosen, defamed him by posting comments on the Town of Southbury Facebook page describing him as a “white supremacist.” … On June … Read more