Peterson v. Burke

1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 8 9 Jeffrey Peterson, No. CV-20-00106-PHX-MTL 10 Plaintiff, ORDER 11 v. 12 Gannett Company Incorporated, et al., 13 Defendants. 14 15 Before the Court is the Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint 16 With Prejudice filed by Defendants Gannett Co., Inc. (“Gannett”) and Phoenix 17 Newspapers, Inc. (“PNI”). (Doc. 61.) Gannett and PNI, the two remaining defendants in 18 this case, move to dismiss Plaintiff Jeffrey Peterson’s defamation claim regarding two 19 articles published in The Arizona Republic…