United States First Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's defamation claim, alleging defendant wrongly portrayed him as a homosexual in a book, is affirmed where plaintiff has failed to satisfy the threshold question of defamatory meaning.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2005
• Published 06/06/2005

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jerrold G. Neeff, with whom The Bostonian Law Group, was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan M. Albano, with whom Aaron M. Wais, and Bingham McCutchen LLP, were on brief, for appellees.