Mealey's (May 3, 2019, 12:13 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A document examiners’ certification board was not defamed by statements made by a forensic document examiner certified by a competing organization in an American Bar Association (ABA) journal issue on forensic science and expert witnesses because the statements were unactionable opinions, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said May 1 in affirming dismissal of the board’s claims (Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc., et al. v. American Bar Association, et al., No. 18-2653, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 13191)....