An excerpt from yesterday's 24K-word Delaware Supreme Court decision in Mac Isaac v. Politico LLC, written by Justice Gary Traynor:
This is an appeal from a Superior Court opinion and order that dismissed a computer-repair-shop owner's defamation claims against a customer, various news outlets, and a political campaign committee, as well as counterclaims brought by the customer against the shop owner. For the reasons that follow, we have concluded that the Superior Court did not err when it held that the allegedly defamatory statements did not concern the plaintiff shop owner and thus were not actionable….
In the Superior Court, Mac Isaac conceded that the October 19 Politico article was "substantially true," but argued that its headline, which stated that the "Hunter Biden story IS Russ