MARTIN v. HEARST CORP.

Docket No. 13-3315.

777 F.3d 546 (2015)

Lorraine MARTIN, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HEARST CORPORATION, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc., dba Daily Greenwich, News 12 Interactive, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Main Street Connect, LLC, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 28, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ryan O'Neill ( Mark Sherman , on the brief), The Law Offices of Mark Sherman, LLC, Stamford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jonathan R. Donnellan ( Courtenay O'Connor , on the brief), Hearst Corporation, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Hearst Corporation.

David A. Schulz ( Cameron Stracher , on the brief), Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee News 12 Interactive.

Eugene Volokh , UCLA School of Law First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, Los Angeles, CA, for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Before: WALKER, JACOBS, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff-Appellant Lorraine Martin was arrested in 2010. Local media outlets published stories accurately reporting the arrest and that Martin was charged with various drug-related offenses. Although she concedes that the articles were factually true at the time they were published, Martin sued the publishers for libel and...

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