Legal Opinion
Clawson v. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, L.L.C.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 31, 2006No. 04-CV-486PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REID, Associate Judge:
Appellant Patrick M. Clawson appeals from the judgment of the trial court dismissing his complaint alleging defamation and other torts against appellees. He essentially argues that the trial court erred as a matter of law in dismissing his complaint because the words “informer” and “FBI informer,” as used in a newspaper article, were defamatory as a matter of law, or reasonably capable of defamatory meaning. We affirm the judgment of the trial court and hold that the terms “informer” and “FBI informer” are not defamatory as a matter of law; nor are they reasonably…
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