A man who had written a fictionalized version of his youth during which he murdered his father sued a Washington Post reporter for an article that he claimed presented him unfavorably and defamed him. The article concerned the man’s attempts to regain control of his manuscript.
The federal judge wrote, “A description of Bond’s legal battle necessarily entails the discussion of parts of his life story” and rejected claims that the Post reporter agreed to keep that history out of the article. -db
From the Courthouse News Service, December 8, 2011, by Ryan Abbott.