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Being Called an Informant Not Defamation

Loaded on July 15, 2010

Filed under: Informants, Media. Location: New York.

On November 25, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit filed by a prisoner who claimed that he was defamed when two newspapers reported that he intended to cooperate with authorities.

Shemtov Michtavi sued the New York Daily News and the ...

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