Mealey's (June 19, 2018, 12:51 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on May 29 denied a petition by a former employee of an insolvent insurer asking whether, in defamation suits, “a court must distinguish between false and defamatory statements of ‘fact’ and false and defamatory statement[s] 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.)....