Officer’s defamation suit
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Cincinnati police officer cannot proceed under a pseudonym in his defamation suit against people who “made derogatory comments about him on social media, portraying him as a white supremacist” after he provided crowd control during a protest in front of city hall, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
Brief / February 17, 2022
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