Martin v. Hearst Corporation

WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Lorraine Martin was arrested in 2010. Local media outlets published stories accurately reporting the arrest and that Martin was charged with various drug-related offenses. Although she concedes that the articles were factually true at the time they were published, Martin sued the publishers for libel and related claims on the theory that it became false and defamatory to report her arrest once the charges against her were nolled 1 and the records of her arrest and prosecution erased pursuant to Connecticut’s Criminal Records Erasure Statute, Conn.…