Northern District of Indiana Rejects Anti-Drug Activist's Libel Claim for Reports, Cartoon on DUI Arrest and Acquittal

by Eric Dorkin
Christina LaRosa
Holland & Knight LLP
Chicago Office

Charles D. Tobin
Holland & Knight LLP
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March 28, 2008

A police officer's quote calling an Indiana anti-drug leader "the most obnoxious drunken female I have ever arrested," and a cartoon depicting her in a jail cell with O.J. Simpson, will not support a libel claim for a newspaper's coverage about her arrest, prosecution, and acquittal on a DUI charge.

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Northern District of Indiana Rejects Anti-Drug Activist's Libel Claim for Reports, Cartoon on DUI Arrest and Acquittal

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