Ex-WSJ Reporter’s Hacking Lawsuit Linked to Dechert Dismissed

The three remaining defendants won dismissal of all claims in a former Wall Street Journal reporter’s lawsuit accusing them of involvement in a hacking scheme that got him fired, with a D.C. federal judge finding the allegations were too thinly supported.

Jay Solomon’s allegations that Vital Management Services Inc., Israel Insight Analysis and Research LLC, KARV Communications Inc., and some of their officials, violated federal statutes by hacking and disseminating his private communications were at times “speculative” and “barely” argued, Chief Judge James E. Boasberg wrote in his opinion granting their motions for dismissal Monday in the US District Court ...