Appeals court dismisses libel suit against Fox News under anti-SLAPP law
A California appeals court rejected libel claims brought by day laborers who said a Fox News story suggested they were objects of a manhunt. The court ruled that no reasonable viewer would think the broadcast implied that the police were looking for criminals among the day laborers. -DB Metropolitan News-Enterprise May 15, 2009 By Kenneth Ofgang A suit charging Fox News Network with defaming immigrant day laborers in a story about a fight they had