Legal Opinion
Stanton v. Metro Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 23, 2006No. 05-1552PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DiCLERICO, District Judge.
Stacy Stanton has appealed the dismissal of her state-law defamation action against Metro Corp., which arises out of the publication of her photograph alongside an article entitled “The Mating Habits of the Suburban High School Teenager.” The district court dismissed Stanton’s complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted based on the conclusion that the publication was not defamatory as a matter of law. Because we believe this conclusion was erroneous, and because Metro’s alternative arguments for affirmance are not well-founded, we…
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