Raneri v. DePOLO

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

F. Donald Raneri appeals a Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court order sustaining Leo DePolo’s and Westmoreland County’s (collectively “defendants”) preliminary objections. We affirm.

Raneri, a former County detective, alleges that DePolo, the chief, conspiring with the County through certain elected officials, maliciously published defamatory statements about him, resulting in his discharge. The trial court sustained the preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer on the grounds that Raneri’s complaint failed to demonstrate that DePolo had acted…