United States First Circuit

In plaintiff's suit against Barbara Walters, a television personality and journalist, for alleged defamatory statements written about plaintiff in defendant's autobiography, and other causes of action stemming from her expulsion from a school she attended during the 1980s with defendant's daughter, district court's grant of defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff's tortious interference claim is time-barred; 2) the challenged statements are not defamatory, and the complaint contains no plausible allegations of fault; and 3) plaintiff's claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress grows out of the same nucleus of operative facts that spawn her defamation claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2012
• Published 12/18/2012

Judges

• Seyla

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel