Legal Opinion
Purcell v. Ewing
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 22, 2008No. Civil Action 1:07-CV-1857PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
CHRISTOPHER C. CONNER, District Judge.
This is a diversity action in which plaintiff Milton Purcell (“Purcell”) advances a defamation claim against defendant Oliver Ewing (“Ewing”) arising from comments Ewing posted on a publicly accessible online message board. Ewing has moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the statements upon which Purcell rests his case fail to constitute defamation as a matter of law. For the reasons the follow, the motion will be granted.
I. Statement of Facts 1
Purcell is an alumnus of the Milton Hershey School (“MHS”), located in Hershey,…
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