Mealey's (March 14, 2018, 3:10 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former employee of an insolvent insurer on Feb. 12 petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on whether, in defamation suits, “a court must distinguish between false and defamatory statements of ‘fact’ and false and defamatory statement of ‘opinion,’ with the latter afforded protection from liability for defamation under the First Amendment” (Jamus Jacobs v. The Oath for Louisiana, et al., No. 17-1146, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 594)....