Carter Page, a onetime political adviser to former President Donald Trump, is unable to pursue defamation litigation over Yahoo News and Huffington Post articles describing a federal investigation into his potential contacts with Russian officials, Delaware’s top court ruled Wednesday.
A divided state supreme court upheld a decision by Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig A. Karsnitz, who dismissed Page’s claims, which concerned media portrayals of the law enforcement probe and the so-called “Steele dossier” documenting Trump’s suspected ties to Russia.
Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr., writing for the state high court, said the article at the crux of the ...
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