Legal Opinion
McKee v. Cosby
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 16, 2017No. Civil Action No. 15-30221-MGMPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER REGARDING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS
(Dkt. No. 41)
MASTROIANNI, U.S.D.J.
I. Introduction
In this action, Katherine Mae McKee (“Plaintiff’) asserts, defamation claims against William H. Cosby, Jr. (“Defendant”) for various statements contained in a letter written to the New York Daily News (“Daily News”) in response to the newspaper’s publication of Plaintiffs accusation that Defendant sexually assaulted her in the 1970s. The letter, itself detailed in the media, demanded that the Daily News retract the article containing Plaintiffs allegations and faulted that newspaper…
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