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Article Archives >> Lead Stories >> March 1-15, 2008

Memo to Directors on Conflict of Interest
Is Not a Defamatory Publication
Court orders sanctions against director
who filed frivolous libel suit against author

A memo from an officer of a nonprofit club to other officers and directors alleging “a serious conflict of interest” by two officers is not a defamatory publication, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. It has ordered an officer who filed a defamation action against the author to pay sanctions for a frivolous lawsuit. The Court reversed a trial court that had dismissed the defamation complaint but had given the plaintiffs the “benefit of the doubt” and denied sanctions.  (Koly v. Enney, 11th Cir., No. 07-12396, 3/7/08.)

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