Barstool Sports Inc. trimmed some of comedian Michael Rapaport’s claims stemming from its termination of his contract to produce a podcast and from its related allegedly profanity-laced defamatory remarks, after the Southern District of New York found the comments aren’t actionable under New York law.
The defamation claims fail because a reasonable reader wouldn’t have believed that the challenged statements, “largely laden with epithets, vulgarities, hyperbole, and non-literal language and imagery,” were conveying facts about Rapaport, the court said.
Rapaport’s fraud claims also fail because they duplicate his breach of contract claims, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District ...
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