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BIRO v. CONDÉ NAST

Docket No. 14-3815-cv.

807 F.3d 541 (2015)

Peter Paul BIRO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONDÉ NAST, a division of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., David Grann, Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., Louise Blouin Media Inc., Global Fine Art Registry LLC, Theresa Franks, Paddy Johnson, Yale University Press, Defendants-Appellees, Patrick Bahners, Georgia Museum of Art, International Council of Museums, Dan Rattiner, Manhattan Media LLC, Dan's Papers, LLC, Gawker Media LLC, Business Insider, Inc., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: December 8, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Altman , Law Office of Richard A. Altman, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David A. Schulz , Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, New York, N.Y.; Chad R. Bowman , Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Conde Nast, a division of Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., and David Grann.

Diane Boenig Cavanaugh , Desmond C.B. Lyons , Lyons McGovern, LLP, White Plains, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee Louise Blouin Media Inc.

Anthony N. Gaeta ( William A. Friedman , on the brief), Levine DeSantis, LLC, Springfield, NJ, for Defendants-Appellees Global Fine Art Registry LLC and Theresa Franks.

Darren W. Johnson ( Lynn B. Bayard , Danielle B. Polebaum , on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee Paddy Johnson.

Floyd Abrams ( Brian Markley , on the brief), Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee Yale University Press.

Before: JACOBS and LOHIER, Circuit Judges, and CRAWFORD, District Judge.

In this appeal from a dismissal of a defamation suit, we address whether Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires a limited-purpose public figure to plead in a plausible way that defendants acted with actual malice. We conclude that it does. We therefore affirm the judgment of the United States District Court...

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