Legal Opinion
McKee v. Cosby
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 18, 2017No. 17-1256PPublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Kathrine McKee sued William H. Cosby, Jr., whom she had accused in a 2014 interview published in the New York Daily News of raping her, for defamation after the content of a purportedly confidential letter penned to the paper by Cosby's attorney in Cosby's defense was disseminated and reported on by news outlets and websites worldwide. The district court granted Cosby’s motion to dismiss, primarily on First Amendment grounds, see McKee v. Cosby, 236 F.Supp.3d 427 (D. Mass. 2017), and McKee appealed; We affirm.
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