Buzzfeed To 11th Circuit: New York Dossier Ruling Supports Fair Report Privilege

Mealey's (May 14, 2019, 7:24 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Citing a recent New York appellate court ruling in a parallel lawsuit over a Russian dossier purportedly linked to political wrongdoing surrounding the 2016 presidential election, Buzzfeed Inc. in a May 3 notice of supplemental authority tells the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that this bolsters its position that New York’s fair report privilege defeats underlying defamation claims over its online publication of the dossier (Aleksej Gubarev, et al. v. Buzzfeed Inc., et al., No. 18-15295, 11th Cir.)....