{"id":125229,"date":"2025-07-02T12:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=125229"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:16:50","slug":"ny-judge-likely-to-appeal-ruling-holding-federal-judges-are-public-officials-in-defamation-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/02\/ny-judge-likely-to-appeal-ruling-holding-federal-judges-are-public-officials-in-defamation-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Judge Likely to Appeal Ruling Holding Federal Judges Are Public Officials in Defamation Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman ruled that the court was \u201cnot aware of any deferral defamation action in which a federal court has determined that federal judges are public officials. But like a state court judge, Altman held that a federal judge also qualifies as a public official.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Roy Altman ruled that the court was \u201cnot aware of any deferral defamation action in which a federal court has determined that federal judges are public officials. But like a state court judge, Altman held that a federal judge also qualifies as a public official.<\/p>\n

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U.S. District Judge Roy Altman ruled that the court was \u201cnot aware of any deferral defamation action in which a federal court has determined that federal judges are public officials. But like a state court judge, Altman held that a federal judge also qualifies as a public official. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. District Judge Roy Altman ruled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/legal-news-OcoEg3.jpeg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125244,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125229\/revisions\/125244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}